Susanne Blakeslee Tammy Minoff Ryan Raftery Paul Haber Alet Taylor

What If?

Life is filled with What Ifs, and so is the world of theater. What if you suddenly lose the rights to the play you’re doing? What if you do a musical revue instead? What if the musical revue is filled with What Ifs? Like What if Stephen Sondheim wrote Bye Bye Birdie, and What if Rodgers and Hammerstein had written Assassins and What if Frank Loesser had written The King and I? What if there were songs and sketches by some of the most talented people writing for cabaret and musical theater? The answers to the What Ifs are simple to find: Come see What If? A Musical Revue at The Hudson Theater

The cast from Bruce Kimmel new stage which recently played at the Hudson Theater.

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Ryan singing I Don't Need You

Paul Haber as Jerry Herman's Sweeney Todd and Mr. Karp in "Something" (His response to "Nothing")

Susanne Blakeslee sing A Little Lift

Alet Taylor singing If I Can't Take It With Me

The What If? Company (Paul, Alet, Ryan, Tammy, Susanne)

The Musical Numbers

ACT ONE
We'll Do a Revue  Company ( including What If Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields had Written Cats Tammy which Replaced What If Stephen Sondheim had written Cats)
Show Me (the Mary Rodgers song, not the Lerner and Loewe song)  Alet
What if Bock and Harnick had written A Chorus Line  Company
Times Like This  Tammy
Something  Paul
At the Same Time Tammy and Ryan
What if Irving Berlin had written West Side Story  Company
A Little Lift  Susanne
Millions of Men  Paul
What if Alan Menken and Howard Ashman had written Phantom of the Opera  Company
When You're Waiting For Love  Alet
I Want To Be Annie (Replace Joshua Noveck which was dropped during the run)  Tammy
Born Too Late (Replaced Parsley which was dropped during the run)  Ryan
The Yiddish Sondheim Company

ACT TWO
What if Rodgers and Hammerstein had written Assassins  Company
I Don't Need You  Ryan
What if Frank Loesser had written The King and I  Ryan and Paul
A Slight Neurotic  Susanne
Foolin' Ourselves Paul and Ryan
What if Frank Loesser and Jerry Herman had written Sweeney Todd  Company
Simply  Tammy
Better  Susanne
Broadway Coming Attractions  Company
Chinese Food in Bed  Ryan
If I Can't Take it With Me  Alet
What if Stephen Sondheim had written Bye Bye Birdie  Company
We'll Do a Revue (reprise) Company

To see more photos and read the lyrics from some of the songs click on the notes