All Emotional Dramas and sale of Tupperware products from Dixie

Admin   |   11 December, 2014   |   441   |   3980

Watch out, middle-aged American male. If you’re tricked into attending “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” and Ms. Dixie Longate, the Southern-fried Tupperware saleswoman-comedienne-tormentor fixes her big brown eyes on you, you’re toast. Or some other comestible that can be neatly sliced, sealed in a plastic container and placed in the deep freeze.

Longate is the creation of writer-performer Kris Andersson, and he has been criss-crossing America for some time with this 100-minute, one-man-in-drag show, which combines bawdy comedy, brilliant improvisation, cheery insults of the male gender and, yes, the promotion and sale of Tupperware.

At the Segerstrom Center’s Samueli Theater on Tuesday, Andersson’s memorably brassy hostess roamed through the audience before the show, handing out breath mints and Dixie-style aphorisms. Andersson has been working on the character since “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” debuted at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, and at this point the performer wears her like a second skin. Dixie chatted with incoming fans as if they were old friends. Indeed, some of them are – they’ve clearly seen “Tupperware Party” many times and chuckle at some of the callback lines and routines as if they were from “I Love Lucy.”