Blue Moon, a 2025 film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott, follows Lorenz, or Larry Hart, on the night of his writing partner's greatest triumph. You've heard of "Rodgers and Hammerstein." Well, before Richard Rodgers changed musical theater in the 20th century with his infamous partner Oscar Hammerstein II, he actually had a prolific career writing 28 stage musicals and over 500 songs with lyricist Larry Hart. Blue Moon is a fictional account of what Larry might have been doing on the night that Oklahoma! opened on Broadway. With such a niche premise that needs historical context to even understand, today we ask: who was this for?
Referenced:
Blue Moon (2025)
As of recording, streaming on Netflix
Primer from Ethan Hawk on Lorenz Hart
Before Trilogy
Blue Moon (1934 Song)
Letters of Elizbeth Weiland: https://time.com/7325788/blue-moon-true-story-lorenz-hart/
Richard Rodgers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rodgers
George Roy Hill: https://boxd.it/15Ef
Oscar Hammerstein II: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Hammerstein_II
Stephen Sondheim
Casablanca
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund
Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine
The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’: https://youtu.be/O5APc0z49wg?si=x5aW7pf7uWs5XyKE
Oklahoma!:
E.B. White: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._B._White
Roshan Sethi: https://boxd.it/NwRh
A Nice Indian Boy: https://boxd.it/GG6o
What is a Snob? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snob
George M. Cohan “Over There”: https://open.spotify.com/track/6XHjtVlSB0X073M80nabrs?si=fe2aa04aa91f43b7
Yankee Doodle Dandy: https://boxd.it/25LO
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