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Gay Business World
Miss Dixie: The Tupperware "Queen"
Selling
Tupperware in drag. That's what Dixie Longate does, and she does it
fabulously.
Dixie
Longate gives a brand new spin to the traditional home party sales experience.
She's a lot country, and even more Rock and Roll. Having started 3 years
ago in Los Angeles after fleeing her native Mobile, Alabama, Miss Longate
has risen through the ranks of the Orlando-based company to become the
number one personal seller of the world famous bowls and plastic ware
in the entire United States (and parts of Canada and Guam. Hey, they
need food storage too.) For the past 3 years, Dixie has dominated the
awards ceremonies at Jubilee, the National Tupperware Convention, held
yearly during the late summer. This year’s is being held in Reno,
Nevada in late July.
After
18 failed marriages and several run-in's with the law that are all part
of the public record, Miss Longate was encouraged by her parole officer
to make a change of scenery and to enter into the fray of a home-based
business in order to gain a solid footing with the judge in order for
the courts to return custody to her of her 3 children: Dwayne, Wynona,
and little Absorbine Jr. Through plastic, she teaches many valuable
lessons to her offspring about teen pregnancy, staying away from drugs,
and why a trailer is a truly comfortable and practical place to live.
( This is, of course, totally tongue-in-cheek people.)
Dixie
has resided in Los Angeles for the past 3 years in her beautiful double-wide,
taking her irreverent demonstrations into homes and places of business
all over the Southland. "I love selling this plastic crap. It is
amazing!!! I mean there are so many uses for this stuff. And just last
week, one of my guests pointed out that you can actually use it in the
kitchen as well. So now I've decided to take certain pieces out of the
bedroom and give that a try!"
Dixie
is a bit brazen, and her brand of humor definitely leans over into the
adult realm, but through all that, the audience truly learns valuable
information to extend the life of their fruits and vegetables and to
reheat like a master in the microwave-safe product lines. Not like your
Momma's Tupperware party, Dixie will have them doubled over in the aisles
during her run at the New York Fringe Fest with future dates to be announced
in New York City. As well, she is available for traditional in-home
parties as well. ("A girl's got to make a livin' in New York and
I don't mean behind the Burger King dumpster!")
Dixie
Longate, America's foremost Tupperware "Lady," is taking her
plastic wares to New York City starting this month as part of the New
York International Fringe Festival. Her show will be exactly what the
title, "Dixie's Tupperware Party" implies, an actual, honest-to-goodness,
straight-from-the-living-rooms of Middle America, Tupperware party.
Catalogs will be handed out, bowls will be demonstrated, and seals will
be burped. But Dixie's personal take on Tupperware is like no other.
Crowds will be laughing till they cry, rolling in the aisles, and maybe,
just maybe, experiencing a wee wee or two.
Dixie’s
show is less like a regular Tupperware party and more like a one-woman
tour-de-force show where the audience is completely involved from start
to finish and laughing so hard that they are actually crying.
Even
Great Britain has had a taste of the Tupperware Lady’s burping
seals. A recent installment of Union Jack , Jack Osborne’s new
show airing in London on Channel 4, featured a segment with Dixie doing
a Tupperware party with show’s co-host, Alex. The party was done
as a segment for the show and the Tupperware Queen ended up selling
almost $700 worth of plastic to the crew. It was a riot.
Dixie’s Tupperware party, a mix of fast-paced jokes, hard-hitting
insights, and ridiculous improvisation, is the funniest show to hit
Southern California in the last several years. And is the only show
in town that is booked six-months in advance by eager partygoers waiting
for their turn to see Dixie’s unique take on the traditional 50’s
Tupperware Party.
Making
her New York debut at the New York International Fringe Festival –
Fringe NYC (August 13-29th), you wont want to miss her.
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