--Hi everybody! It's me, Susan Blackwell and today I'm side-by-side my favorite
Broadway lady drink. You know the kind with the big stupid umbrella and all the
fruit look everybody from Escape to Margaritaville
it's Lisa Howard! --Hello!
--Tell our friends at home where we are in what the hell we are
doing today?
--Well we are at Mother Burger. I've never eaten here, but it sounds
delicious. I love burgers and I'm a mother, so that
you can't go wrong
--I love burgers and I'm a mother ******
--Whoa!
--And I'm here having lunch with this
lovely lady
--I could not be happier because you know what I love? I love me
some ****** Lisa Howard
--30 seconds on the clock. You're gonna tell me your life story
do not leave out the awesome parts starting now
--Okay, well. I grew up in
Akron Ohio. I went to King Elementary School.
I'm the youngest of three kids, older brother
Joe, middle brother Brian. I am Lisa, obviously. My mom's a teacher. My dad's an
accountant. I went to the University of Cincinnati and studied musical theater
Got a BFA. I moved to New York City in nineteen ahem. My first big show was
Les Mis then I did Spelling Bee, South Pacific, 9 to 5
I can't think of the rest of my shows I did. It Shoulda Been You
Priscilla Queen of the Desert and now I'm in Margaritaville!
--Well done.
Super bonus what is the title of that autobiography?
--She got shit done.
What?
--Lisa Howard, what the what must be like to be starring on Broadway in
Escape to Margaritaville?
--It's a lot of fun and stupid and I tell a lot of puns
in the show and we've now taking them to making them up backstage, and I'm like I
am the Eric Petersen I are just like our characters are on stage, off stage, and
so we're always like ahahhaha
then we go on for our entrance like it's the dumbest!
--What the what is the story
about your husband proposing to you?
--We had met on the E train, so I thought for
sure he was gonna propose like on the subway or somewhere. I totally thought that the e
train was like slang for e-harmony.
--No --No.
--You literally met on the actual E-train
--Yeah
--That's amazing, go ahead
--We were doing Spelling Bee, and all of a sudden at the curtain call, Jose Lana steps
forward and Jose said we have a special guest coming out right now. And I turned
around and he had a suit on, and I was like, Oh god! --Did you know?
-- When I saw the suit I knew. And then it came and got down on his knees.
The whole audience cheered and
stood up and everyone was screaming
and then of course I was like in sobbing ugly face
crying. Like ugh ugh oh my god.
--What the what, in God's name, wasn't like to be
in the Twilight movie? I'm dying
years later and I'm still dying --It was
crazy town. --You like it - you like Twilight.
-- I was literally reading the
entire series
--Oh! --During 9 to 5 when I was
I would come offstage and
run to change my clothes really quick and run to the makeup mirror where there
was actual light, and stand and read the book, and then hear my cue and put it
down and run on stage! Like that's how obsessed with Twilight I was. I was there
a Lots, in the background doing this and that --Just smoldering as a vampire
--Vampire-y. --You smoldered like a mother.
--I had like one line, but it was
great because I'd never been on a movie set, especially not a movie
like a franchise you
big stars --You got a movie movie
for the first time
--It was great that there was no pressure.
I just had to stand there and do what I was told and watch and learn. It was perfect.
--The first song I ever remember singing is....
--Maybe far away,
or maybe real near by
he maybe pouring her coffee ,she maybe straightening his tie
--My current go to audition song is...
--My baby, he don't talk sweet. He ain't got much to say
but he loves me loves me loves me. I know that he loves me anyway!
--Points for awesomeness! My first audition song
was ....
--Midnight, not a sound pavement
moon lost her memory
--whatever the words are
I sang Memory from Cats
--How old were you? You were like... --12 or something. --Just a
twelve-year-old cat singing about the past and regret.
--If you're a 12 year old cat, you're
getting up there!
Am I right?
--A song I sing to my kids is....
--Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me.
small and white, clean and bright,
you look happy to meet me
--What if you legally adopt me? Don't say no, just think about it!
--You were in the original company of the 25th Annual
Putnam County Spelling Bee. My god what a cavalcade of talent
--It was you
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan Bolger, Jose Lana Derek,
the list goes on and on. Sarah...amazing amazing group of people yeah
and they are all so delicious. The name of the game is which one would you eat?
--Which one would I eat? --Yeah
--Oh! Derek Baskin!
--Yeah! That's the right answer.
He is --Can I say that?
[laughs]
--Drunk! There you go Derek Baskin.
--My D! --This is how this how it all ends for you.
--Who do
you do? Do any impressions?
Who do you do? Singing
impressions?
--Rainy days and Monday's always get me down!
--Karen Carpenter I knew you had it in you!
--This is where in your phone in my phone we prank
call one of our celebrity friends and you do Karen Carpenter for them. Who do we
want to call? Well there's Jesse Tyler Ferguson
--Titus Burgess --Titus Burgess! I don't think we've ever pranked
Titus Burgess. --Oh
--Should we call him? --We could
--Get him on the phone.
--Hello?
--[singing] I'm on the top of the world lookin down on
creation and the only explanation I can
find....
it's Lisa Howard she's drunk!
--[laughs]
--Oh no you know he's calling -- Lisa Howard's
office. Can I help you? I'm sorry Lisa's not available right now she's
really drunk! [laughs]
--She hung up on Titus!
--Bottom of the resume,
special skills what you got?
--Oh I could make a really horrible face. Wanna
see it?
I'm just going to eat a chip
wait for it
--That's like I'm gonna call that the Mary
Jo Buttafuoco. I'm gonna call that stroked out!
--Hey guess what time it is!
--You've got my nose! --It's time for Susan's fantasy juke box
I've got your nose and you can have it back but first you have to sing me a
song.
--When I was a girl I had a favorite Story
the meadowlark who rivers wide
her voice could match the angels in its Glory, but she was blind
--Oh no. --The lark was blind!
An old king came and --This has been
another episode Side by Side by Susan Blackwell
with Lisa Howard
go and see her in Escape to Margaritaville
You will not regret it.
She's the best. Born to make beautiful sounds.
--SIng for me, my meadowlark!
Sing for me, on the silver morning.
Set me free, my meadowlark!
And I'll buy you a priceless
jewel and
and I'll love you for life if you
will sing for me.
--Oh, I got my nose back!
-- God damn I love you.
--Oh fun!
[music]
--Do you have any good puns for me?
What puns are you coming up with Lisa Howard?
What do you call a sleepwalking nun
--What? --A Roman Catholic.
--[laughs]