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THE COMPANY

RAISE THE ROOM

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

vex on it

after hours

Honest use case: people who need to feel a part of something larger than themselves, especially in a theatre setting.

Exhibit: “We are load-bearing when we dream”

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
129
key
F major
energy
0.68
dance
0.94
valence
0.56
vocal at
19.2s
length
3:15
words
259
clichés
0
language
En

most sung: “raise” ×22 · “room” ×20 · “one” ×5

shared with the crate: 18 other songs use “fire”

lyrics

(an audience settles, a cough, then silence)
I came in with a folded map
Of everywhere I'd rather be

The usher smiled and tore my stub
Said, honey, take your time
A hundred strangers, one warm hub
And every seat a life like mine
(a life like mine)

One voice is a candle
(two is a fire)
Four is a lantern
(and ALL of us — a choir!)

Raise the room! Raise the room!
Every voice can lift a beam
Raise the room! Raise the room!
No one holds a roof alone
Raise the room! (higher!) Raise the room!
We are load-bearing when we dream
Raise the room!
(raise it, raise it!)

The cynic in row seventeen
Came armed with folded arms
By scene two he was mouthing words
By three, disarmed of all alarms
(we saw him cry — we did!)

Raise the room! Raise the room!
Every voice can lift a beam
Raise the room! Raise the room!
No one holds a roof alone
Raise the room! (higher!) Raise the room!
We are load-bearing when we dream

When the last bus leaves without you
(we will drive you home)
When your name feels like a rumor
(we will say it loud)
(loud, loud, LOUD—)

RAISE THE ROOM! RAISE THE ROOM!
Every voice can lift a beam!
Raise the room! Raise the room!
No one holds a roof alone!
Raise the room! Raise the room!
We are load-bearing when we dream!
RAISE THE ROOM!

I came in with a folded map
(and left it on the seat)