If It Was Easy… is a play written by Stewart F. Lane

Stewart F. Lane

Stewart F. Lane is a five-time Tony Award winning Broadway producer with two shows currently on Broadway: Priscilla Queen of the Desert andWar Horse. He also has a DVD out now based on his critically acclaimed book, Let's Put on a Show! and a new book called "Jews of Broadway" He has also...

 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

Off-Broadway

Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...

 at The Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks

Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....

 Theater in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. The play is a greatly exaggerated version of a real life article on the front page of the New York Post

New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

 involving Stewart F. Lane

Stewart F. Lane

Stewart F. Lane is a five-time Tony Award winning Broadway producer with two shows currently on Broadway: Priscilla Queen of the Desert andWar Horse. He also has a DVD out now based on his critically acclaimed book, Let's Put on a Show! and a new book called "Jews of Broadway" He has also...

 and Ward Morehouse III after the death of Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...

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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
  Berkshire Theatre Festival
  The Berkshire Theatre Festival is one of the oldest professional performing arts venues in the Berkshires, celebrating its 80th anniversary season in 2008.-History:...
  
   (MA)
• Actors Theatre of Nantucket (MA)
• Guild Hall (East Hampton, NY)

Off-Broadway opening Night Cast

• John Jellison
• Bonnie Comley
  Bonnie Comley
  Bonnie Comley, Vice President of Stellar Productions International, Inc. is a producer, writer and performer.Comley has created scholarships funds at Columbia University Business Graduate School and at the Boston University College of Fine Arts Undergraduate School, where a theater is named in her...
  
  
• Vicki Van Tassel
• William Marshall Miller
• Brad Bellamy
• Christian Kauffman
• Martin LaPlatney
• Gustave Johnson

External links

• See listing off-broadway
• Official website