On the opening night of Oklahoma!, lyricist Lorenz Hart drinks through Sardi's while chasing one last renewal with Richard Rodgers and the young woman he adores, but both are already moving beyond him.

1. Scenes 1–6

   Hart leaves the show that displaced him for his Sardi's habitat, where wit and remembered greatness keep fear at bay.

2. Scenes 7–9

   Hart needs Elizabeth to choose him and Rodgers to need him, while drink offers the quicker form of consolation.

3. Scenes 10–14

   He admits White into his private mythology and steps into the Oklahoma! celebration to confront the people he cannot keep.

4. Just before
5. Scene 14

   Hart greets Rodgers and Hammerstein with extravagant praise, conceals his jealousy, and lets Rodgers pull him aside to discuss work.

6. Scene 15

   Rodgers offers a Connecticut Yankee revival, but Hart's Marco Polo pitch and refusal of professional discipline expose the partnership's fracture and Hammerstein's succession.

7. Scene 16

   Hart admits to White that he has quietly entered life's 'for worse' years, inspires the name Stuart with his recurring mouse story, and retreats toward the men's room.

8. Scene 17

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