How are the kids doing, and how do you manage the delicate balance of being both a career woman and mother of three? Having kids is, most of the time, a huge mistake. Sure, they are fine when you can send them away to school for nine months at a time, or they develop a skill like bartending or bull riding. But when they come home for a whole year and ask you things like, “Momma, when’s lunch?” or whatever, it’s hard. This past year has been a real challenge. You can’t even send them


to the library right now. Not because it is closed, but because they don’t let my family in there after they found me looking at porn on their research computers. Hell, I was doing research! That’s what them computers are for. It said so right on the laminated sign.


Do you hold any feelings of ill will towards Laurence Fishburne in losing the 2007 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance to him? I figured they gave him the award because they felt bad for him,


knowing that he was only noteworthy on the West Coast in Hol- lywood. Hardly no one has ever heard of him outside of there; but I’m known all over the country and in several parts of Missouri. He was very nice. He shook my hand and everything. I think that


was his hand. It was at the afterparty and the lights were burnt out and it was a very long hallway. But he smelled nice and that’s important. Hopefully, he will be able to do another movie again someday, so people can clap for him again.


I love the concept for Happy Hour – how did that come about? When the pandemic started, I was on tour with my show, Dixie’s Tupperware Party. You know, the one that I got the Drama Desk


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nomination for, when Laurence Fishburne stole from me. All the theatres closed at the same time, so I ended up cutting my tour short and heading home. I was having happy hours on the computer with friends of mine for a while. Then I figured I should be doing this with everybody. I put the show together based around the four basic food groups: rum, gin, vodka and tequila, and their place in your otherwise busy lives. But I wanted it to be a full-length play and not just about drinking,


so I wove a lot of stories about my growing-up years and about the things that make me find the happy hours that I might be missing when things get too chaotic. I wanted to inspire people to focus on the good stuff in life, even when it feels like there isn’t any there.


Aside from Tupperware – what do you hope is the audience takeaway from your show? This has been a tough year for everyone, but I want people to take a minute to realize how resilient they are. We have had the collective rug pulled out from all of us around the world and we have been forced to adapt. But I think people don’t really give them the credit they deserve for being able to do that. It is pretty amazing when you think about it. I hope people enjoy the show and it makes them start to actively


look for little things to make them happy every single day. A cocktail and a smile are the two best things to have at the ready in my opinion.


For tickets to Dixie’s Happy Hour, visit cygnettheatre.com.


To keep up with Dixie or to purchase Tupperware from her, visit dixiestupperwareparty.com.


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