Lorenz Hart, a brilliant but troubled playwright, drunkenly confesses his infatuation for a woman named Elizabeth to a weary bartender. He passionately claims his internal emotions could outshine his greatest professional successes while struggling with his own erratic behavior.
HART: A youthful 47! You know what I call her in my letters? My irreplaceable Elizabeth! Can you believe it? If I could write what’s in my heart this second I would have the entire audience levitating. Oklahoma! would close in shame if it could hear eight bars of what’s in my heart. And I’ve been in
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