Review: DIXIE'S NEVER WEAR A TUBE TOP WHILE RIDING A MECHANICAL BULL...rides into Denver

What happens when you put an Alabama hurricane, a broken mechanical bull and a cardboard cutout of Dame Julie Andrews in the same show? A rip roaring good night, that's what! Dixie's Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull... has ridden triumphantly into Denver.

Immediately after walking into the Garner Galleria Theatre at the Denver Center Performing Arts Complex, you are transported to a good ol' Honky Tonk bar. The walls are decorated with multiple posters and a mounted deer head. There is also the famed mechanical bull toward the back with yellow police caution tape around it.

As Dixie Longate welcomes you to the bar, you get the feeling that y'all have been best friends for years. She does not miss a beat in this 90 min one-woman feat. She offers some fantastic advice, cleverly guised as almost crude humor like "Shut Up. Eat a moon pie, and get on with your damn life." Good advice, even though I have never had a moon pie. Scandalous, I know!

Dixie has an incredible combination of ease and feisty fire! She has the ability to keep you smiling and laughing so hard that your face and sides hurt, and then she turns around and hit you with some kind of prolific life advice which invokes all kinds of feelings.

To be completely honest, I did not expect to go into a show with the words "tube top" and "mechanical bull" in the title, and leave with an enhanced view on the world. But that is exactly what happened. You do not want to miss this rump roaring good time! And who knows, maybe you will leave a little more enlightened.

Dixie's Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull (and 16 other things I learned while I was drinking last Thursday) plays the Garner Galleria Theatre at the Denver Center for Performing Arts through April 24th. For tickets, call 303.893.4100 or visit DenverCenter.org.

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