ContentsFrom the President & CEO . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Welcome from Prairie Meadows . . . . . . . .4Dixie’s Tupperware Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Title Page

Dixie’s Tupperware Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Who’s Who in the Cast

Dixie’s Tupperware Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8Staff

“A Little Scribble from Dixie’s Notepad” . . .9Des Moines Performing Arts . . . . . . . . . .10Board of Directors and Staff

Guest Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Dixie’s Tupperware PartyDecember 4 - 29, 2013

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Dear friends,

Welcome to the Temple Theater! Since opening in October 2002, the Temple Theater has become an important fixture in the live entertainment scene in Central Iowa and a cornerstone of the Western Gateway revitalization . It is undoubtedly one of the best small performance spaces in Des Moines .

Des Moines Performing Arts is dedicated to bringing the finest in professional theater and entertainment to our area . We’re very grateful to Prairie Meadows for supporting our programming .

And we especially appreciate the support of our loyal Temple Comedy Series Season Ticket Holders . It’s the support of theater-goers like you that makes this intimate theater a continued success . If you don’t have Season Tickets yet, there’s still time! Enjoy Whirled News Tonight, The Intergalactic Nemesis and Power Balladz: The Ultimate 80’s Sing-Along for only $82!

Jeff ChelesvigPresident & CEODes Moines Performing Arts

FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

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Dear Temple Theater guests:

Des Moines is alive with cultural events that rival those found in much larger cities across the nation . This is a result, in large part, to the outstanding offerings presented by Des Moines Performing Arts . Your support of this organization and the wonderful productions at the Temple Theater is a testament to the quality of offerings it provides to our community .

Prairie Meadows is delighted to partner with Des Moines Performing Arts in bringing you the Prairie Meadows Temple Comedy Series and to contribute to the economic vitality and quality of life in Central Iowa .

Along with our commitment to providing financial support to the arts, Prairie Meadows has given more than $1 billion through taxes, grants and charitable donations to the State of Iowa . More than half of that has remained right here in our community to promote economic development, agriculture, jobs and tourism .

We look forward to another wonderful season, and we hope you enjoy the show .

Sincerely,

Gary PalmerPresident /CEO Prairie Meadows

WELCOME FROM PRAIRIE MEADOWS

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December 4-29, 2013PRESENTED BY DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS

DES MOINES TEMPLE THEATERA Des Moines Performing Arts Theater

Jeff Chelesvig, President & CEO

Down South LLCpresents

Dixie Longatein

Dixie’s Tupperware Party

by

Kris AnderssonDirected by

Patrick Richwood

The Tupperware trademark is used with kind permission of the Tupperware Brands Corporations.

The production was presented by

THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVALa production of THE PRESENT COMPANY

Originally produced in New York by Ars Nova, Jon Steingart, Jenny Wiener and Jason Eagan

www.dixiestupperwareparty.com

Dixie’s Tupperware Partyis performed without intermission

Lighting DesignRichard Winkler

Sound DesignChristopher K. Bond

Hair DesignDavid H. Lawrence

Tour ManagerMichele Helberg

General ManagementK L Management

National Press RepresentativePeter Cromarty & Co.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST

DIXIE LONGATEYour Tupperware Lady

Hey hookers, I’m Dixie Longate, America’s Favorite Tupperware lady . I’m from Mobile, Alabama, born and raised . What can I say, I’m a southern girl through and through . I started selling the fantastic plastic crap in 2001 and I have never had so much fun drinking for free in my life . Within a year, I was one of the top sellers in the nation because, well, me and some plastic bowls, and a bunch of drunk women somehow equals lots of sales .

I have 3 kids; Wynona, Dwayne, and Absorbine, Jr . and 3 ex-husbands . All of ‘em have somehow died, but I ain’t crying about it . I’m way too busy traveling all over the place bringing creative food storage solutions to your town .

My Tupperware party caught the eye of some New York Theatre producers and in 2007, I had a big opening in my own show, Dixie’s Tupperware Party Off-Broadway and got a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance . I know, shut up, right!

I have now played in theaters far and wide across these fruited plains as well as 4 other countries with my show . Some of those places I didn’t even realize had food . See what I have learned by traveling so much . I’m happy to be here partying it up with all y’all this evening . Now grab a Tupperware sippy cup and let’s have ourselves a party!

For more info or to see pictures of me doing fun things, go to my website,www .DixieLongate .com .

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PATRICK RICHWOOD (Director) has been associated with Dixie Longate since her earliest days in the world of food storage and is delighted to be collaborating on her quest to save the world, one collapsible bowl at a time! As a director, he has garnered critical praise for his work in the one-person genre including Dark Horse at the L .A . Theatre Center, An Otherwise Empty Room at the Geary Project, San Francisco, and Ishmael for the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Annex, Los Angeles . KRIS ANDERSSON (Playwright) is a Los Angeles-based writer who debuted Dixie’s Tupperware Party at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival . Following that run, he teamed up with playwright Elizabeth Meriwether and director Alex Timbers to create the Off-Broadway version of the show at Ars Nova . The show received the 2007-08 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance .

RICHARD WINKLER (Lighting Designer) has more than 35 years as a lighting designer for Broadway, Off-Broadway, opera, ballet, regional theatres, national tours, concerts and arenas . Most recently—Musicals, including: Miss Saigon, The Who’s Tommy, Hairspray, at Houston’s Theatre Under the Stars; The Full Monty, A Christmas Story, the world premiere musical Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Kiss Me Kate, Jekyll and Hyde, Fame, the Musical . Most recent plays include: Jerusalem (World Premiere), Waverly Gallery, Dirty Blonde, and Wit . Now also a 3-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer The Norman Conquests (2009), Memphis, The Musical (2010); La Cage aux Folles (2010) . Other Broadway producing credits include: A Little Night Music, Lend Me A Tenor, La Bete (London and Broadway), Long Story Short with Colin Quinn, and Nice Work If You Can Get It . In the West End: Legally Blonde, The Children’s Hour, Betrayal, Long Day’s Journey Into Night .

CHRISTOPHER K. BOND (Sound Designer) is pleased to be in his 5th season with Dixie’s Tupperware Party . His other work consists of more than 40 top New York and National Touring productions, including the New York and HBO productions of Colin Quinn: Long Story Short, Fame On 42nd Street, Jack, A Night With John Barrymore, and the national tours of All Shook Up starring Susan Anton, Some Like It Hot starring Tony Curtis, Guys & Dolls, Steve Martin’s Picasso At The Lapin Agile, and Forever Plaid . Mr . Bond has designed more than 30 regional productions across the US and has served for ten seasons as the Sound Designer for Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, TX . DAVID H. LAWRENCE (Hair Designer) Having worked on Broadway productions many years, David has had the pleasure of working with all of the best casts, crews and fellow designers on Broadway . This production of Dixie’s’ Tupperware Party is no exception . On Broadway you have seen David’s work in such shows as : A Catered Affair (NYC , Old Globe), Company 2007, All Shook Up (NYC, Tour) . On the road his work has been included in such productions as The Full Monty (Broadway and Tours) Maurice Hines’s Guys and Dolls (tour), The Crucible (staring Liem Neeson & Laura Linney), Some Like it Hot starring Tony Curtis (Tour) . David also designed the hair for two seasons of Saturday Night Live (Emmy Nomination), and the Films; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (ABC), The James Brady Story (HBO) . David is the Winner of the 1994 Outstanding Achievement Award from Theatrecrafts International for work on Disney’s Beauty and the Beast . Thanks Paul Huntley, Bob Kelly, plus all who work so hard backstage nightly . KL MANAGEMENT (General Manager) has been involved in over 70 shows in the last 30 years that have toured throughout the world . Recent productions include Tuna Does Vegas, All Shook Up, Some Like It Hot starring Tony Curtis, Fame: The Musical, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Blonde, Fully Committed, The Vagina Monologues and Forever Plaid .

WHO’S WHO in the CAST

STAFF

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STAFF FORDixie’s Tupperware Party

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

KL MANAGEMENTRichard Martini Elinor Prince

Sharon Pratt Christy Ellingsworth

NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVECromarty & Co .

Peter Cromarty/Alice Cromartywww .cromarty .com

TOUR MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michele HelbergWigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David H . LawrenceBookkeeper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elinor PrinceInsurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dewitt Stern Group

Broadcast Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Frank Basile/Fresh Produce NY

freshproduceprod@hotmail .comPayroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Castellana ServicesPress Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Felicia Velasco

The production was presented by THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL

FRINGE FESTIVALa production of THE PRESENT COMPANY

Exclusive Tour Direction

Please Contact:

Down South 1501 Broadway Suite 1401, New York,

NY 10036

212-730-9500 * Dixie@martinient .com

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“Holidays”

omeone once said that things often come much more into

focus after that second shot of tequila . I can’t say that I disagree

with that . And I reckon that many of you have had that experience . You know when you are talking to a friend as the bar bill climbs and you start to make sense out of things that were plaguing you just a few hours before .

I have to think that there was a round of empty glasses sitting on the counter when Brownie Wise thought to herself, “Hey, if I take these plastic bowls off of the store shelves and demonstrate how great they are to my friends in their own living rooms, I might be on to something .” Over 60 years have passed and boy was she on to something .

Who could have imagined that a single mother from the middle of the country could take a plastic bowl and make it an iconic piece of Americana . This is what inspires me about Brownie Wise . She wasn’t just creating a way to sell more plastic crap . She looked past the bowl, and found women that were lost, who needed help, who just didn’t quite fit in, and she gave them a network of friends and neighbors who would come together to share recipes and cocktails . They would talk about their families and their new Broyhill recliner . They would show off their ultra-modern wood paneling, and sometimes, their empty bed where their husband had slept before he went off to war . These parties not only provided creative food storage solutions, they also provided opportunities for women to step up and in a small way, take charge of their lives .

Now I haven’t had the easiest life, but the good times happily have outweighed the bad times . At least that is how I remember it . But there ain’t a day that goes by that I don’t pick up a piece of Tupperware and thank my lucky stars at how much better off I am now than I was just a couple of years ago .

A Little Scribble from Dixie’s Notepad

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Maybe it’s the plastic containers, maybe it’s the drinking, I’m not certain . But there is one thing I do know . I am so grateful that Brownie Wise decided to walk into her neighbor’s living room with that first set of bowls all those years ago . If she hadn’t, I am not quite sure where I would be right now .

Brownie ain’t that much different than me . And I ain’t that much different from you . Like they say, if you put your mind to it, you can do anything . Even if you turn down that shot sitting in front of you on the bar .

Welcome to my Tupperware Party!

SSSS

Dixie LongateDixie Longate

DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTSBOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STAFF

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OFFICERSThomas Brown *ChairBrown NationaLease

Mary Kramer *Vice-Chair/Assets ChairAmbassador, Ret.

Thomas E. Press *TreasurerMidland’s Choice

Rosemary Parson *SecretaryEquiTrust Life Insurance Company

Mary Stier *Past Chair/Compensation ChairThe Brilliance Group

Karen J. Lynn *Audit ChairAthene USA

Patrick Mack *Finance ChairJohn Deere Financial

Dr. Andy McGuire *Nom/Gov ChairMeridian Health Plan

DIRECTORSRobert BrownellPolk County Board of Supervisors

Rick ClarkCity of Des Moines

Frank CownieCity of Des Moines

John CraigSammons Financial Group

Eric T. CrowellUnityPoint Health Des Moines

Michael Eberle, DVMEberle Animal Hospital

Jon GarnaasG3 Development

Travis GjoraasDeloitte

Sheryl GrimmCommunity Leader

Laure GuisingerHolmes Murphy & Associates

Terry JohnsonWells Fargo Wealth Management

Monica KirganPrincipal Financial Group

Christine Lauridsen SandLauridsen Group

Judith McKayCommunity Leader

Bob O’HollearnAllied Insurance

Thomas E. Stanberry *Davis Brown Law Firm

Angela WilliamsThe Great Frame Up

LEGAL COUNSELMike KulikDavis Brown Law Firm

*Indicates a member of theExecutive Committee

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ADMINISTRATIONJeff ChelesvigPresident & CEO

Laura Sweet Vice President & COO

Bill McElrathBusiness Director

Barbara HansonAccountant

Chris BrowningOffice Manager

Julie HoughtonExecutive Assistant

BUILDING SERVICESEarl SmithBuilding Services Manager

Ly UngAssistant Building Services Manager

Building Services Associates:Danny GloverFrancisco HernandezKhom MaoFrancisco MoraIrene PerezHank TeavDominick Ung

DEVELOPMENTTodd FogdallDirector of Development

Tiffany SpinnerAnnual Fund Manager

Brett SmithResearch Specialist

Rachel WoodhouseDonor Relations Coordinator

GUEST SERVICESJoel CoxGuest Services Manager

Marnie StrateAssistant Guest Services Manager

House Managers:Kerry GeorgeShirley Kleywegt *Doug KoubaEvonne KoubaSharon MontgomeryCynde Pool *Shirley RamirezSandra SappMarion Singleton*Temple Theater House Managers

MARKETINGBarb PreussDirector of Marketing

Cindy Hughes AnlikerCommunications Manager

Matt SpanglerMarketing Manager

Summer EvansMarketing Manager

Leslie JasperGroup Sales Manager

Greg VotavaDigital Marketing Manager

Anna GebhardtMarketing Intern

PROGRAMMING & EDUCATIONEric B. OlmscheidDirector of Programming & Education

Karoline MyersEducation Manager

Michelle McDonaldSchool Programs Coordinator

Sarah BannonCommunity Programs Coordinator

TECHNICAL OPERATIONSBrian AnstedtProduction Director

Greg TracyProduction Manager/Head Audio

Alan DyerTechnical Operations Manager/Head Electrician

Nicholas RomanoStage Operations Manager/Head Carpenter

Jamie L. SteppProduction Supervisor

Jon MarshallRun Crew

TICKET OFFICEJulia DuvallTicket Office Director

Misty EndersonTicket Office Database Manager

Jessica PetersTicket Office Staff Manager

Jeff WaldschmittTicket Office Manager

Laura ArensonCustomer Service Team Member

Margo JonesCustomer Service Team Member

Candace BellCustomer Service Team Member

Chontel BerthelsenGroup Sales Coordinator

STAFF

The backstage employees of Des Moines Performing Arts are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 67.

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