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Metuchen writer Robert Kaplow pens screenplay for biopic on Lorenz Hart

By Doug Doyle
Published October 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM EDT
Actor Ethan Hawke, right, portrays lyricist Lorenz Hart of the musical theater songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart in the new movie Blue Moon.
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Actor Ethan Hawke, right, portrays lyricist Lorenz Hart of the musical theater songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart in the new movie Blue Moon.

Blue Moon, a new movie about the lyricist Lorenz Hart, has just opened in theaters around the country. Hart was one half of the prolific musical theater songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart. The screenplay for Blue Moon was written by Robert Kaplow who lives in Metuchen.

As WBGO’s Jon Kalish reports, this is the second movie made from Kaplow’s work…

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Doug Doyle
Doug Doyle has been News Director at WBGO since 1998. Since then, Doug and his news staff have received more than 300 awards from organizations like PRNDI (now PMJA), AP, New York Association of Black Journalists, Garden State Association of Black Journalists and the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists.
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