--Hey everybody! it's me Susan Blackwell and today I'm side by side my favorite
double-decker Broadway nerd burger supreme from Hamilton an American
musical, look everybody it's a Daniel Breaker!
--Greetings
--Daniel tell our friends at home what we are doing today
--We are gonna have a fun
conversation. I hope.
--haha! --Yeah ok great and we're also
gonna do some things with some food. We got some deviled eggs that we're gonna
make deviled egg bar..
--You're insane with the food
--Mm-hmm --Talk
to me goose what is the dealio with you and food
--Well food is delicious. I mean, I
think when as a kid an army brat we traveled around a lot and food was
always around that was always a thing. So sort of curiosity of fusions of
different things
--You're mildly obsessed with food
--I wouldn't say mildly I said yeah I'm
--Full-on! --I'm full on.
--You think about it all the time. Food food food food food food.
--Yeah like in my head like in my dreams I think about it --On stage?
--No --Other people Are talking?
--No no no
--Other people are singing
--No no I don't do that --You're
full of beans sir --Ooh beans maybe like a bean soup would
be good for this
--See? -- We have some eggs
you're gonna make these too. I mean they're
already cooked. Everything's cooking we're just assembling things.
--We're gonna we're
gonna try some things experiment
--Eggs-periment
--Oh lord.
--All right so this
is this is egg yolks mayonnaise, mustard, paprika, olive oil, happiness. --it smells
good --And just to make it look
really fancy it's in this thing. So we're
gonna have like a few different things here. Let's start with chorizo.
I feel like chorizo and cilantro love each other. Oh it's springtime so we should do
some springy ones --Wasabi ?
--No this is pea puree --What
flavor would work with this would you say?
--Peas and the spring love, I would say
duck, asparagus, this pickled asparagus, dill
--You made that didn't you? -- I sure did yeah dill
would be nice on there -- I'm gonna beat you up on the playground so hard you
food nerd.
--Wow thanks
I'm gonna put 30 seconds on the clock you're gonna tell me your entire life
story. Don't leave out the awesome parts. Starting in 3 2 1.
--Army brat, born in Manhattan Kansas, the little Apple. Lived in 13 different
places as a kid. My parents are from Florida. I grew up in Germany, Illinois
and other places right
Went and moved to New York, as an actor, went to Juilliard
actor, --15 seconds
--Um I really like to cook and I really like theater. I also
like classical music. --You have 10 seconds left
--And I feel good about how this
interview is going
--Are you grading me during your 30 second life story?
Time's up!
--What
the what is it like to play Aaron Burr in the Broadway production of Hamilton
what the what must that be like?
--That's much fun --What the what is it like to
walk out onto the stage? And is it still a rock concert? I mean is it like crazy?
--Yeah I mean there they are those audience members are really happy to be
there because you still have a wave of people that just have been have waited
four years to see the show. So, you still have this sentiment especially in the
front row, which is the lottery folks and they --The wet zone
--I walked out in silence and you could hear this and this
kid was like it's happening!
Lost it.
--Should we do
these eggs?
--Oh yes let's do
--These guys --This is fried chicken skin --Did you make
that? --Yeah so I just had some chicken
skin
--Like you do --And I didn't want to waste it
I was poaching some chickens. I had took the skin off, like how can I use
this? So I blanched it and I deep fried it. This is hot sauce that my older son
Rory and I made. Rory designed the label
--Nice --Whoa whoa
easy big fella --What?
--What the what can you tell me about being a professional
Steve Urkel impersonator?
--So okay so we just got back from Germany. We moved to
the wall came down we moved back to the States,
which was talking about culture shock. So we moved to Illinois, and then somewhere
along the way this little shy kid was doing like impressions
of people
--Sure -- And that's the one that really stuck and so at one point I think
we did like I think we appeared on America's Funniest Home Videos, and then
I started doing like birthdays and Christmas parties, and other other events.
--I get I know what a Steve Urkel impression is, but doing what?
--He would he
would come in and have like a skit. I had like all the cheese and all this stuff
and I would like knock it over and then it would fall and I'd be like did I do
that?
--Ah! --And then I would just
like walk around like a like a like a
mascot for a little while
--Give me a taste of that --I would just be
like say like Laura my babushka and crap like that. I don't really I don't
remember the skits anymore. Oh my god, just just years of years of therapy
--The
creatives at the Hamilton are like a smorgasbord if you will of talent. You've
got Lin-Manuel of course but then you have like Tommy Kail, Andy Blankenbueller
Alex Laicamore, so my question is to you is they all look
delicious which one would you eat?
--Blankenbueller I feel like I would eat, but I he would need to be braised.
That's what I would say --Right there in the center of the table yeah yeah
yeah yeah. I'd put Laicamore out there-
--Yeah how would you prepare him? --oh my
goodness how do you prepare Lacaimore really? -- I don't know. You tell me you're in
the show
--I feel like you know I feel like he would be a dessert. He would be a
pastry almost like a baked Alaska.
--Oh with those little jingle jangle curls on top
powdered sugar on that and then we just bring him to the table we just set him
on fire! --Are we talking about cannibalism right now?
--I think we are
--This is to recap
--That is deviled egg --Fried chicken skin
--Fried chicken skin, homemade hot sauce
--You're gonna you want to join me? --Oh sure!
-- Clink. Here we go. Oh all in
--Who made that? Who made that? That's really good.
--We made that. --Really good oh my god in
heaven.
--I'm nominating the celebrity
we're gonna call today is Taylor Trensch from Dear Evan Hansen, who does a
fantastic impression of Harriette Winslow from Family Matters
--Carl
--Get ready to
think about what you want to say it has Steve Urkel.
--I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now.
--
--Why? Oh, cause she's dead.
--Harriette? Harriette why
don't you ever pick up the phone? Harriette please where's Laura?
--I'm gonna
ask you a series of questions. This is a lightning round.
You have about five seconds to fully explore the answers to each of
these big questions. And here we go.
--God or no God?
--Some God, something out there.
--What happens when we die?
--We end up here
in this interview. --Do aliens exist?
--No. --Are
ghosts real?
--Yes...
--Death penalty yes or no?
--No. --What's your purpose in life?
--To survive
--Cake or pie?
--Neither
--How dare you?
--Ice cream
yes. --Tableflip but it's gonna be like is
it gonna be like Cayenne ice cream with
just a drizzle of --No
--Baby's blood or something?
--Well no baby's blood is not in season
right now. I think it can be any kind of ice cream. I make like a fancy ice cream
like I made a saffron ice cream the other day, or a lavender ice cream. But
last night I made sweet love to Van Leeuwen honeycomb ice cream, sweet sweet
sweet love to it.
--What is the silliest stupidest weirdest thing you've seen within the walls of a
theater or a dressing room?
--I would say the weirdest thing I've seen is I think
it was Michael Luwoye who was dressed as a cat backstage during
Wait for It --like a I'm skimble shanks
cat or Mr. Mistoffelees, or like a
rescue cat like
--Like I'm handing out pamphlets in Times Square cat.
--Why! --Just standing there
--Why? -- I don't know
--Oh my gosh guess what time it is?
--What? --It's time for Susan's fantasy jukebox. I have
your nose and you may have a any song of your choosing
--buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh
buh buh buh buh buh buh buh buh
--This has been another
amazing episode of Side by Side by Susan Blackwell, and we're going to have a
spring wedding, spring 2018. Go see him in Hamilton.
You will not regret it.
--I'm a real boy!
--You are. Let's eat eggs.
--The Hamilton earworm that I can't get out of my head is...
--Whoa whoa
work!
Like that was just like woah woah woah
They just keep going
like in my in my sleep I like wake up like ah!