Editing Lorenz Hart (section)

==Personal life and death==
Hart lived with his widowed mother Frieda. He was an alcoholic, and would sometimes disappear for weeks at a time on drinking binges.<ref name=Mooney/>

Hart experienced depression and sadness throughout his life. His erratic behavior was often the cause of friction between him and Rodgers and led to Rodgers teaming with lyricist [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] in 1942. On March 31, 1943, Hart attended the Broadway premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Oklahoma!''.  Then Hart attended the opening night party where he told Rodgers, "This is one of the greatest shows I've ever seen, and it'll be playing twenty years from now!"<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>

In April 1943, Hart was devastated by the loss of his mother and did not recover emotionally.<ref>Nolan, p. 2.</ref>

Many of Hart's contemporaries who knew him socially have stated he was a discreet homosexual, with a reputation as a voyeur, though his friends did not go into detail about people whose behavior he watched, such as their genders.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>

[[Robert Gottlieb]] wrote in the April 2013 edition of ''The Atlantic'' magazine, <blockquote>There were rumors about Larry [Lorenz Hart] while he was alive, but nothing about his sexuality ever appeared in print. One night in Los Angeles, in 1933, someone from a Hollywood trade magazine approached Dick [Richard Rodgers] at a party and said, "I've got to ask you something about Larry ... Is it true Larry's a fairy?" Dick grabbed him by the collar, [biographer Gary] Marmorstein recounts, and said, "I never heard that. And if you print it, I'll kill you."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref></blockquote>

Though Richard Rodgers became celebrated for his music for  ''Oklahoma!'' in 1943, later that year he decided that he and Hart should reunite and create a revival of ''A Connecticut Yankee'', their successful musical from 1927.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref> Hart composed new lyrics for many of the songs in anticipation of the revival's November 17, 1943, premiere at the Martin Beck Theatre.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>

On the November 17 opening night, Hart showed up drunk in the audience at the Martin Beck Theatre.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref> His condition was noticed by his sister-in-law.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>  She persuaded him to accompany her to her Manhattan home.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>  Sometime after they arrived at the couple's home, Hart left, venturing into cold weather to resume drinking.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>  A friend of Hart's found him seated in the gutter of a bar on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue that he favored.  Hart was shivering, and his friend accompanied him to a hospital,<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref> where it was determined that Hart had developed [[pneumonia]] from exposure. On November 22, 1943, approximately four days after admission to the hospital, Hart died.<ref>Nolan, p. 2.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Atlantic |title=Rodgers and Hart's Dysfunctional Partnership|last=Gottlieb|first=Robert|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/words-and-music/309249/ |access-date=October 21, 2023|date=April 1, 2013}}</ref>

Lorenz Hart is buried in [[Mount Zion Cemetery (New York City)|Mount Zion Cemetery]] in [[Queens|Queens County]], New York.<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 20158). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Larry Hart Honored by 300 at Rites Here — Cast of 'A Connecticut Yankee' at Song Writer's Funeral|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1943/11/25/83953988.html?pageNumber=25|access-date=April 23, 2017|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 25, 1943|page=25}}</ref>