If It Was Easy

If It Was Easy… is a play written by Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III. It was nominated for an American Theatre Critics Association’s Best New Play Award in 2000. The play ran off-broadway at The Douglas Fairbanks Theater in New York. The play is a greatly exaggerated version of a real life article on the front page of the New York Post involving Stewart F. Lane and Ward Morehouse III after the death of Frank Sinatra.

Synopsis

Legendary producer Steve Gallop, suddenly down on his luck, is seduced by the charms of a beautiful showbiz columnist, Randi Lester, who’s betting she can improve Gallop’s Broadway track record with a musical based on the life of Frank Sinatra. The idea is to attract front page attention around the world; hundreds of Sinatra wannabes swamp Gallop’s offices. Investors plead for a piece of the action. Not among the pleading masses is mobster Joey Fingers, whose “family” knew Frank, and who naturally expects to bankroll the entire show. Opening night, it looks like curtains for the whole cast until Joey gets an offer he can’t refuse.

Productions

• The Douglas Fairbanks Theater ( NYC)
• 7Stages Theater (Atlanta, GA)
• Berkshire Theatre Festival (MA)
• Actors Theatre of Nantucket (MA)
• Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY)

Off-Broadway opening Night Cast

• John Jellison
• Bonnie Comley
• Vicki Van Tassel
• William Marshall Miller
• rad Bellamy
• Christian Kauffman
• Martin LaPlatney
• Gustave Johnson

References

• The New York Observer article
• Playbill
• News from Playbill
• Playbill article
• Playbill article

External Links

• See listing off-broadway
• Official website