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THE COMPANY

HOUSE OF THE UNWANTED

A company of performers nobody would cast, who built their own stage

style

  • musical theatre
  • huge ensemble anthem
  • orchestra and full company vocals
  • stomping rhythm
  • key change
  • defiant belted lead into massed choir
  • cinematic and triumphant
  • american accent
  • enormous and uplifting
  • american accent

the numbers

bpm
144
key
F major
energy
0.67
dance
0.94
valence
0.51
vocal at
3.8s
length
2:34
language
En

lyrics

(they would not have us)

They would not have me in the chorus, they would not have me at the back
Too tall, too odd, too loud, too much of whatever I am
And I stood outside a stage door in the rain in 2019
And I decided to stop asking men in offices for a room

So we found a warehouse
And we found each other
And we did not audition a single person, we just opened the door

House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted
Everybody they sent home, we kept
House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted
And we are not asking any more, we are not asking any more

There is a boy here who was told he could not dance at eleven
And he opens the second act and eight hundred people stand up

(massed voices, no music)
We were not rejected. We were misfiled.
There is a difference and it took us all our lives to learn it.

House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted
Everybody they sent home, we kept
House of the unwanted, house of the unwanted
And we are not asking any more, we are not asking any more

(we kept!)