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Off-Broadway’s Hilarious "Dixie's Tupperware Party"

Launches 20-City National Tour

September 16^th in Tucson!

Dixie's Tupperware Party, the hilarious Off Broadway show starring Dixie Longate, who recently garnered a 2008 Drama Desk Nomination, will launch a 20-city National Tour September 16^th at Tucson’s Invisible Theatre. Produced by Down South LLC and written by Kris Andersson, the show brought Tupperware-mania to Off Broadway and prompted NBC’s Today Show to proclaim “Not Your Grandmother's Tupperware Party!”

Directed by Patrick Richwood, Dixie's Tupperware Party stars Dixie Longate, as the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, who has packed up her catalogues, and left her children in an Alabama trailer park to journey across America.  Critics and audiences have howled with laughter as Dixie throws a good ol' fashioned Tupperware Party filled with outrageously funny tales, heartfelt accounts, FREE giveaways, audience participation and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on a theater stage. Loaded with the most up-to-date products available for purchase, see for yourself how Ms. Longate became the #1 Tupperware seller in the U.S. & Canada as she educates her guests on the many alternative uses she has discovered for her plastic products! Dixie’s Tupperware Party will feature costumes designed by Miss Longate and lighting designed by Richard Winkler. 

Originally produced at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival, last spring, Dixie brought a more fully realized production to Off Broadway’s Ars Nova .

For more information about Dixie’s Tupperware Party  log onto: www. DixiesTupperwareParty.com

A partial list of the tour cities and play dates are as follows:

TUCSON, AZ                           Invisible Theater                                9/16/08-10/5/08             www.invisibletheatre.com/

DES MOINES, IA                    Temple Theater                                  10/8/08-10/19/08  www.civiccenter.org/index.php

MADISON, WI                                    Capitol Theater                                  10/22/08-11/2/08  www.overturecenter.com/

WEST PALM BEACH, FL     Kravis Center                                     11/11/08-11/16/08       kravis.org/dixie

HUNTSVILLE, AL                  Merrimack Hall                                  11/18/08-11/23/08       www.merrimackhall.com/

CLEARWATER, FL                Ruth Eckerd Hall                               11/25/08-11/29/08       www.rutheckerdhall.com/

MELBOURNE, FL                  The King Center - Studio Theater     12/2/08-12/7/08             www.kingcenter.com/

MESA, AZ                                Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse                    1/7/09-1/25/09   www.mesaartscenter.com/main.aspx

FT. LAUDERDALE, FL          River Room                                        2/3/09-2/8/09               www.browardcenter.org             

AURORA, IL                           Copley Theater                                   3/5/09-3/15/09   www.paramountarts.com/index.php

CHARLOTTE, NC                  Booth Playhouse                                 3/24/09-3/29/09             www.blumenthalcenter.org

ASHEVILLE, NC                    Diana Wortham Theatre                     3/31/09-4/5/09             www.dwtheatre.com/

STUART, FL                            The Lyric Theatre                              4/14/09-4/18/09             www.lyrictheatre.com/           

BIRMINGHAM, AL               The Virginia Samford Theatre            4/21/09-5/3/09   www.virginiasamfordtheatre.org

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