In My Own Little Corner

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"In My Own Little Corner" is a popular solo song from the 1957 Rodgers and Hammerstein television musical "Cinderella," expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained life.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf show tune
song
associatedWith Rodgers and Hammerstein NERFINISHED
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 TV production)
basedOn Cinderella (fairy tale)
composer Richard Rodgers NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States
dramaticContext sung after Cinderella is left alone at home
dramaticPurpose reveals Cinderella's hopes and imagination
firstAppearanceInWork 1957 television musical Cinderella
genre musical theatre song
show tune
hasInfluenceOn subsequent Cinderella adaptations' solo songs
hasMusicalStyle Broadway-style
waltz-influenced ballad
includedIn cast recordings of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
intendedVocalRange soprano
lyricalContent contrasts fantasy with domestic drudgery
daydreams of being in faraway places
lyricalPerspective first person
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II NERFINISHED
narrativeFunction I want song
character song
notableFor expressing the heroine's imaginative escape from her constrained life
notablePerformer Julie Andrews
originalLanguage English
originalMedium television musical
originalPerformer Julie Andrews
partOfWork Cinderella
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella
performedByCharacter Cinderella
settingDescribed Cinderella's home
a small corner used as a retreat
structure verse-chorus form
theme escapism
imagination
inner life
longing for freedom
title In My Own Little Corner
usedIn stage adaptations of Cinderella
television remakes of Cinderella
vocalType solo
yearOfOrigin 1957


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