Blue Moon

Lorenz Hart was responsible with Richard Rodgers for countless classic songs (including ‘The Lady is a Tramp’, ‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered’, and ‘Blue Moon’). However, Rodgers and Hart’s relationship broke down irretrievably in the early 1940s. Rodgers then teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein (resulting in Oklahoma, Carousel, South Pacific and more). Blue Moon takes place in Sardi’s legendary bar on the evening Oklahoma opened to rapturous applause on Broadway. Drowning his sorrows, Hart reflects waspishly to anyone who’ll listen on his long, complex, dynamic relationship with Rodgers including, eventually, Rodgers himself. Perfectly complemented by the National Theatre’s Andrew Scott, who plays Rodgers, Ethan Hawke delivers a career-best performance as Hart, ‘one of the great 20th century writers of popular song’ who had ‘shrunk as a man and an artist’ (Christos Tsiolkas).