Press Club members can buy tickets to the Gridiron Reprise

National Press Club members have the option to buy tickets to the Sunday reprise of the Gridiron Club and Foundation's annual show to be held March 5 in the Washington Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW.

The reception, which includes beer and wine, begins at 2 p.m. and the reprise at 3 p.m. The program will end by 5 p.m.

Tickets are $70 each, and you can now buy up to five tickets online using Eventbrite. The password is: Gridiron321. Tickets purchased online are $70 each plus a $4.84 Eventbrite service fee. (Please add National Press Club to your club affiliation name if you'd like to sit by fellow NPC members)

Alternatively, tickets can be purchased by sending a check to David Cook. Checks should be made out to “Gridiron Club and Foundation,” and mailed to Gridiron Reprise, c/o David Cook, 509 Skidmore Boulevard, Gaithersburg, MD 20877. Tickets cannot be reserved until payment is made. Please note that they are not refundable.

The Gridiron show, which includes satire and songs that skewer the president and congressional leaders, political candidates and journalists too, features well-known faces that might include Al Hunt of Bloomberg, John King of CNN, Andrea Mitchell of NBC, Judy Woodruff of PBS and Bret Baier of Fox News. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields relays highlights of the speeches that were delivered the night before. Running the musical performance is the director of the President’s Own, the United States Marine Band, Lt. Col. Jason Fettig, the Gridiron Club's musical director.

Because the Gridiron Club and Foundation is a 501c (3) organization, about $54 of the $70 cost of the ticket is tax-deductible as a charitable contribution. Its profits support a number of journalism programs and organizations.

For more information, contact Thomas Burr at [email protected].