Prior to Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, I probably wouldn’t have thought that I’d relate so heavily to lyricist Lorenz “Larry” Hart. One part of the duo Rodgers and Hart, he helped bring songs like “Blue Moon” to us all with the help of Richard Rodgers’ compositions.
Blue Moon explores the night that Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, the first musical in a long line of collaborations between Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. And the first in a long line of musicals that I do not like. As a life long fan have musicals and the idea of them, I am very vocal about my dislike of the “classics.” I find many of them sexist and boring. Many of which were created by Rodgers and Hammerstein.
