SCANDAL COMES TO WASHINGTON, DC

Actress Bellamy Young plays the character of Mellie Fitz on the hit ABC television drama Scandal. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actor Jeff Perry plays the character of Cyrus Beene on the hit ABC television drama Scandal. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actor Guerllimo Diaz plays the character of Huck on the hit ABC television drama Scandal. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actress Katie Lowes plays the character of Quinn Perkins on the hit ABC television drama Scandal. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actress Kerry Washington (Olivia Pope), Producer Shonda Rhimes, and actor Tony Goldwyn (President Fitzgerald Grant), attend the Scandal cast event sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest./Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actors Tony Goldwyn and Bellamy Young share show secrets during a panel discussion sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Actor Jeff Perry describes his character Cyrus Beene during a panel discussion sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz chats with Katie Lowe and Guerllimo Diaz about their characters during a panel discussion sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Producer Shonda Rhimes (left) and Kerry Washington participate in a panel discussion sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest D.C. on April 28, 2016. (Patricia Little/The Washington Informer)

Kerry Washington reacts to a joke by Tony Goldwyn during a panel discussion at the Smithsonian Associates Scandal Event on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

ABC News’ chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz leads a panel discussion with the producer and cast of Scandal sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Tony Goldwyn reacts to a comment by Kerry Washington during a panel discussion at the Smithsonian Associates Scandal Event on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest. /Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2

Producer Shonda Rhimes, Kerry Washington, and Tony Goldwyn participate in a panel during the Smithsonian Associates Scandal Event on Thursday April 28, 2016 at the UDC Theater Arts auditorium in northwest./Photo by Patricia Little @5feet2