Another Suitcase in Another Hall "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" features instrumentation from guitar, marimba, harp and keyboard, with Dickson singing in a soprano voice. Author Mark Ross Clark noted in his book, "The Broadway Song: A Singer's Guide", that her vocals portrayed different kind of emotions, with standard pitch correction in the lower middle C. Her vocals contrast the lyrics with an "underlying coolness", while the light voice enabled Dickson to sing the lines "So, what happens now?" in sixteenth note, Emajor. The song is high-pitched to make its syllables appear as difficult to sing. After the first single from the "Evita" album, "Don't
Another Suitcase in Another Hall by saying, "Don't ask, anymore". In 2004, author Rikky Rooksby released the book, "The Complete Guide to the Music of Madonna", where he wrote his thoughts about the popularity of the song: Eva is the center of attention [in the song] but the lyric does not allow a transfer of meaning outside of the context of her story. Part of the song's popularity lies in the way it finds an image—the suitcase in the hall—to express the nomadic nature of modern civilization, the feeling of urban rootlessness that many people experience. The theme of constant moving strikes a resonant note.