Billy & Ray-Film Noir is Created, This Play I Hated

Billy & Ray @ the Vineyard Theater is behind the scenes look at the contentious collaboration between dir/screenwriter Billy Wilder & novelist Raymond Chandler on the groundbreaking film Double Indemnity.  Double Indemnity is the film that navigated around studio's stringent censorship restrictions and introduced the artistic film noir genre.  Sounded like an interesting premise for a play.  Unfortunately, this insipid and amateurish production was so bad it fit the trainwreck genre; so unbelievably bad you can't turn away.  I should have left at intermission.  The 1st act was annoying, terribly acted & cheesy melodrama.  The 2nd act was awful.  Garry Marshall directed this stinker & Sophie von Haselberg (Bette Midler's daughter) was cast as the wise cracking secretary.  There is nothing redeeming in this play.  It wouldn't fly in Poughkeepsie.  In retrospect, Billy & Ray was not a good idea in any way.