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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Blue Moon

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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4.511.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In the new movie Blue Moon, Ethan Hawke plays songwriter Lorenz Hart, who is having maybe the worst night of his life. His long term collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) has forged a new partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II, and tonight is the opening of Oklahoma!, their first show. And it's safe to say Hart is miserable. Blue Moon is directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Boyhood), and co-stars Margaret Qualley.


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In the new movie Blue Moon, Ethan Hawk plays songwriter Lorenz Hart, who is having maybe

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the worst night of his life.

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Hart and his songwriting partner, Richard Rogers, have had a long and fruitful partnership.

0:35.6

But now disaster in the form of Oklahoma, exclamation point.

0:39.8

It's 1943 and it's that show's opening night on Broadway.

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It's clear that Rogers has a hit on his hands,

0:45.4

but this one was written with his new collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein.

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And it's safe to say Lorenz Hart is miserable.

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