Night Editor {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The Capitol Fools will be at the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Friday. The Capitol Fools were already in the midst of their nationwide tour delivering bipartisan political ribbing when the news broke that would completely change their show.
That, of course, being when President Joe Biden took to X in July to finally quell discussions about his second-term prospects and announce he would drop out of the 2024 race, and, in the process, endorse his vice president, Kamala Harris. Suddenly, a vast majority of the Fools' show filled with song parodies and skits no longer worked. "There were six numbers that we were able to hold onto out of 25," said Jack Rowles, who performs with the comedy troupe and is also the show's director and producer.
"(We) had to write a new show." That was no issue for Rowles and writer Mark Eaton, both veterans of the Capitol Fools' predecessor, the Capitol Steps, which for 40 years was the premiere political comedy troupe before it went defunct in 2021. For one, the group already had an actor playing Harris.
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. "It was quite the adventure, but at the same time, I will say that it did bring an energy to the audiences that we weren't experiencing before" Biden dropped out, Rowles said in.
