Composer Richard Rogers and lyracist Lorenz Hart worked together on 28 musicals and more than 500 songs, many of which are legendary classics of the Great American Songbook, among them My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Manhattan, and the song of the film’s title, Blue Moon. Blue Moon takes place in 1943 on opening night of the smash hit, Oklahoma!,  Rogers’ and his new writing partner, Oscar Hammerstein’s first musical. Hart has left the theater after watching only the first half, retiring to theater district hang out, Sardi’s, to contemplate his life while waiting for the show to end and Rogers to appear for his congratulations. Directed by Richard Linklatter, with Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andew Scott, Margaret Qualley, 2025, USA, 100 minutes.

Discussion with the novelist and screenwriter, Robert Kaplow, who is an Oscar nominee for this film.