Lonely Room

Song

"Lonely Room"
Song
Published	1943
Songwriter(s)	Oscar Hammerstein II
Composer(s)	Richard Rodgers

"Lonely Room" is a tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1943 musical Oklahoma!, sung not too long after "Pore Jud Is Daid.”

"Lonely Room" is Jud Fry's declaration that he will get out of his smokehouse and get Laurey Williams to be his own.^[1] He states how tired he is of the dirtiness of his smokehouse and how he longs for a girl of his own. Rodgers’ ability to describe character through music is highlighted by the chromatic sound and the adventurous dissonant intervals.

Sung by Howard Da Silva in the original Broadway production, the song was omitted from the 1955 film adaptation, though an instrumental version is heard briefly during the dream ballet.^[2] It was restored for the 1980 and 1998 Broadway and London revivals.

In popular media

Lonely Room is performed by Jesse Plemons during the closing scene of the 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things.^[3]

References

^ Pogrebin, Robin (May 16, 2002). "Pore Jud Is . . . Sympathetic? Adding Depth To a Villain". The New York Times. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
^ Carter, Tim (2008). Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical. Yale University Press p. 161. ISBN 978-0-3001-3487-2.
^ Brian P. Rubin (September 4, 2020). "The ending of I'm Thinking of Ending Things explained". Looper. Archived from the original on September 4, 2020.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein II

Stage musicals

Oklahoma!
Carousel
Allegro
South Pacific
The King and I
Me and Juliet
Pipe Dream
Flower Drum Song
The Sound of Music
A Grand Night for Singing
State Fair
Cinderella

Productions

I Remember Mama
Annie Get Your Gun
Happy Birthday
John Loves Mary
Show Boat
The Happy Time
Burning Bright

Films

State Fair (1945)
Oklahoma!
Carousel
The King and I (1956 film)
South Pacific
Flower Drum Song
State Fair (1962)
The Sound of Music
The King and I (1999 film)

Television

Cinderella
Carousel
Cinderella (1997)
The Sound of Music Live!
The Sound of Music Live

Songs

"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'"
"The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"
"Kansas City"
"I Cain't Say No"
"Many a New Day"
"It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!"
"People Will Say We're in Love"
"Lonely Room"
"The Farmer and the Cowman"
"All Er Nuthin'"
"Oklahoma"
"If I Loved You"
"Soliloquy"
"You'll Never Walk Alone"
"It Might as Well Be Spring"
"That's for Me"
"A Fellow Needs a Girl"
"So Far"
"Some Enchanted Evening"
"There Is Nothing Like a Dame"
"Bali Ha'i"
"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair"
"I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"
"Younger Than Springtime"
"Happy Talk"
"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught"
"I Whistle a Happy Tune"
"Hello, Young Lovers"
"Getting to Know You"
"We Kiss in a Shadow"
"Something Wonderful"
"I Have Dreamed"
"Shall We Dance?"
"No Other Love"
"I Enjoy Being a Girl"
"The Sound of Music"
"Maria"
"My Favorite Things"
"Do-Re-Mi"
"Sixteen Going on Seventeen"
"The Lonely Goatherd"
"Climb Ev'ry Mountain"
"So Long, Farewell"
"No Way to Stop It"
"Edelweiss"

"Something Good"
The Sound of Music (1965 soundtrack)
The Sound of Music: Music from the NBC Television Event

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Oklahoma! (1943)

Source

Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs (1931 play)

Adaptations

Oklahoma! (1955 film)

Music

Act 1	"Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" "Kansas City" "I Cain't Say No" "Many a New Day" "It's a Scandal! It's a Outrage!" "People Will Say We're in Love" "Lonely Room"