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A Campy Comic Melodrama: The Killer Satire Starring Kris Andersson
September 5, 2024
Don’t miss Island City Stage’s uproarious production of Die, Mommie, Die! by Charles Busch, running now through September 22nd. Off-Broadway Star Kris Andersson (aka Dixie Longate) takes the art of drag to a new level as Angela Arden, an aging kitten with a quip, grapples with middle age and murderous intentions with madcap melodrama.
“The plot is a puréed pastiche of the 1960s diva-with-an-ax flicks that stars like Davis, Crawford and Tallulah Bankhead were reduced to appearing in (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Strait-Jacket and Die! Die! My Darling!), with a dollop of Lana Turner weepies like Madame X,” writes Ben Brantley of the New York Times.
Ex-pop singer Angela Arden is trapped in a hateful marriage with Sol. But desperate to find happiness with her young lover Tony, Angela murders her husband with a poisoned suppository. Suspicious of their mother, her children slip her some LSD, provoking a wild acid trip in which many secrets are revealed.
Die, Mommie, Die! was first produced in 1999 by Kenneth Elliott and Don Fairbanks at the Coast Playhouse in Los Angeles. In October 2007, the play opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages in New York City. Directed by C
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This article was published on August 2, 2017
How a playwright turned a Tupperware Party into an enduring and cathartic theatrical franchise
When Dixie Longate first encouraged an 85-year-old woman named Dolly to shout out the words “F Off,” she blushed. This genteel older lady from Huntsville, Ala., had never said those words out loud in her life, she told Dixie, and she wasn’t about to start now, in front of 300 people.
Kris Andersson
But something changed as that evening’s performance of Dixie’s Tupperware Party progressed. Dixie, the creation of playwright Kris Andersson, wasn’t trying to goad this proper lady into saying a dirty word.
“Dixie was trying to get her to revel in her own strength,” he says.
Dixie is a fictional stage character, but a very real Tupperware salesperson. In fact, Dixie has sold $1.5 million of the durable plastic wares over the past 16 years, twice ranking as the nation’s leading Tupperware seller.
But the party is also a wildly successful play that has drawn capacity crowds in small towns and major cities alike ranging from New York, Los Angeles, Des Moines, Edinburgh, Nashville, Sydney, Fort Worth, and right now Denver, where Dixie’s record sixth engagement at the Garner Galleria Theatre continues through Sunday
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