Forget Barbie, Dixie Longate is the Ultimate Plastic Girl

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Dixie’s Tupperware Party. The brisk, 95-minute show — funny, joyful, and personable, which earned Andersson a Drama Desk nomination in 2008 — recently began a month-long run at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater.Despite having played the character for 17 years, Andersson has never grown tired of hosting the nightly parties to an audience all-too-eager to be whisked back to simpler times.“I get to share time with wonderful people every night, so it doesn’t really feel like a job or a hassle at all,” he says. “I never know what kind of people I’m going to interact with, and that’s what keeps it fresh.

Thousands of shows into the run, it really doesn’t get old for me.”The character of Dixie has become so “second nature” to Andersson that he effortlessly slips into it over the course of a half-hour chat.“It’s the seat of our democracy!” crows Dixie, of her appearance in Washington. “And nothing says ‘Food storage’ more than the seat of our democracy!

The Kennedy Center said, ‘We need you here because people need quality creative food storage solutions.’ So, I said, ‘Yes, I will come,’ because I’m a giver, it’s what I do.

But to be here at the Kennedy Center, it’s such an honor — it makes me all tingly in my juiciest place.”Recently, however, some cities have not been so welcoming to Dixie.