NBC’s “The Today Show” exclaimed, “It’s not your grandma’s Tupperware party” and with good reason. This hilarious one-person comedy has become one of the most successful off-Broadway tours of the last decade and is rolling into Overture Center with “The Final Season” on Friday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Capitol Theater. Following 17 years of laugh-out-loud performances, Dixie is holding her final season of Tupperware parties with Madison being the 2nd to last stop on the tour. Dixie Longate, the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, packed up her catalogues, left her children in an Alabama trailer park and travels across the US & around the world throwing good ol’ fashioned Tupperware Parties filled with hilarious stories, heartfelt accounts of its importance to women, free giveaways, outrageous audience participation and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Who better to bring the joy of Tupperware to a mass audience than the gal, who since 2003, has been recognized yearly by Tupperware as one of their top sellers. Audiences tend to howl with laughter as Dixie demonstrates the many alternative uses for the iconic plastic kitchen staple. Filled with outrageously audience participation and a little bit of empowerment & homespun wisdom, Dixie’s Tupperware Party leaves your heart a little bigger and your food a little fresher. The show has ADULT CONTENT.
Dixie’s Bio:
Dixie Longate hails from Mobile, Alabama, where she lives with her 3 kids: Wynona, Dwayne & Absorbine, Jr. She started selling Tupperware as part of the conditions of her parole back in 2001. Within a few years, she became the top selling Tupperware representative in the US. When a friend of hers told her she should turn her living room party into a theatrical show, she laughed so hard at the idea, she almost had to put down her drink. Dixie’s Tupperware Party soon opened off-Broadway in 2007 to both raving fans & great reviews. The show earned Dixie a Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance. She lost to Laurence Fishburne. Really. Look it up. The following year, with plastic bowls in hand, she embarked on a small tour to some theaters in the US. 12 years later, that tour was still running and had become one of the longest-running, off-Broadway tours in American theater history. During the lockdown in 2020, she came up with her first streaming show while refilling her breakfast vodka as she was trying to homeschool her kids. “Dixie’s Happy Hour” ran in 26 cities over the first few months of 2021. After 22 months of being forced to be with her kids full-time, which was about the meanest thing anyone has ever done to her by the way, she decided it was time to emerge from the trailer to share all the things that she learned when the world was flipped over and life took a crap on the front lawn with her new show, “Cherry Bombs and Bottle Rockets.”
I had the chance to catch up with our favorite Tupperware pusher, Dixie Longate ahead of the final stop in Madison as plans and directions change. We can catch her 6/27 at the Overture. We get into what she thinks it is about her and Madison, WI that always seems to jive when we all get together. She reminds the newbies about just what this show she brings is all about. We do cover what is in the future that changes her touring around and stopping thru many places around the country – hint, the show goes on, just she will have a home base for us to go to and she does let us know the things she will miss about coming…to towns and spaces all over. Always a pleasure and joy to speak with Dixie and this time is no different. So, Join the party in Madison and help Dixie meet her final sales quotas!
