Our House

Synopsis

Our House is a musical featuring the greatest hits of 80s pop band, Madness! As well as featuring two all new songs written by Madness, the show is full of the band's greatest musical numbers, including Baggy Trousers, It Must Be Love, Driving In My Car, House of Fun and Night Boat to Cairo. Billed as a London love story, Our House centres on two teenagers living in North London to the backdrop of Madness' hit songs. It is the story of Joe and his girlfriend Sarah who live in modern-day London, and follows two different courses his life could have taken following a petty crime.

Our Review:

7 April 2003

While Cliff Richard rashly declares on the posters for the dire tribute show Cliff - The Musical that he wishes he was in it, Suggs really is in Our House, the musical that has been vividly and imaginatively constructed around the repertoire of the 1980s pop band, Madness, that he so memorably fronted.

After doing a week in the show in March 2003, he is now returning for a longer stint, though he doesn't so much front the show as give the show's hero a guiding voice of conscience.

Suggs plays the hero's late father, hovering over the parallel routes the 16-year-old Joe takes as he breaks into a Camden building site to impress his girlfriend Sarah. As Joe begins the cycle of repeating (some of) his dad's mistakes in his confrontations with the law, his long-absent dad now seeks to be more present: it's Carousel meets Blood Brothers.

While the intervention of a big personality in a small role threatens to ...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com (81.136.139.135) - 18 August 2003:

Oh my god! Saw the show for the second and last time on Saturday night and couldn't wait - loved it even more than the first time!! My mum who has seen it 5 times nagged at me for ages to go see it which being 23 and saying you're going to see a mucisal about Madness is not good! I can't believe they're taking it off - please explain the logic in that! The whole cast make it brilliant and such entertainment - I now can't stop singing....'it must be love, love, love......' which being in the third row on Saturday and seeing Michael Jibson up close - it was!! He plays the character so well as do the rest of the cast - they all seemed to love every minute of it as much as the audience. Please bring it back!!!...

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