When director Richard Linklater first shared the script to Blue Moon with Ethan Hawke more than a decade ago, he wanted to start filming it immediately. Article content

The two Texas natives had already made eight films together when Linklater approached the four-time Oscar nominee with a story that would revisit the fateful night legendary musical artists Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers — who penned hundreds of classic songs together, including My Funny Valentine , Isn’t It Romantic? , The Lady is a Tramp , Bewitched and the iconic Blue Moon — called it quits. Article content Article content

As Rodgers (played in the film by Andrew Scott) celebrated the opening of Oklahoma! with his new lyricist, Oscar Hammerstein II, inside the famed Broadway restaurant Sardi’s, Ha

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