Our House continues at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley until 28 October and then tours until 25 November. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Creating a 1980s jukebox (ish) musical from Madness’ hilarious, sparkily observed, high octane songs seems an unlikely proposition. Yet, with Tim Firth’s poignant, perceptive, thoughtful book, and directed by […]
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Our House UK tour – former BGT winner George Sampson joins cast
Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson will join the upcoming UK tour of Madness musical Our House this summer. The street dancer turned actor will take on the role of bad boy Reecey alongside the previously announced Deena Payne, Jason Kadji and Sophie Matthew in the new production of the Olivier Award-winning show. Presented by […]
Our House tour – Deena Payne to replace Linda Nolan
Former Emmerdale star Deena Payne will join the UK tour of Our House to replace Linda Nolan who has withdrawn from the show following her recent cancer diagnosis. Best known for her long-running role as Viv Hope in the ITV soap, Payne’s stage work includes three tours of Calendar Girls and the original West End […]
Madness musical Our House will tour starring Linda Nolan
A new production of the 2003 Olivier Award-winning musical Our House will tour the UK from 7 August to 25 November 2017, featuring the music of ska music pioneers Madness and starring Linda Nolan. Tim Firth, the writer of Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots and Our House, said: “Madness are unique in that they wrote songs […]
Our House – Union Theatre
Our House continues at the Union Theatre, London until 12 September. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ One of the best ways of ensuring that a jukebox musical succeeds is a catalogue of songs that are lyrically rich, so that their themes can be woven together into a coherent story. Our House fares better than […]
Madness musical Our House revived at the Union Theatre this month
Madness musical Our House, with a book by Tim Firth, opens at London’s Union Theatre from 19 August to 12 September (press night is 21 August). The production is directed by Michael Burgen, with choreography by William Whelton and musical direction by Richard Baker. The story follows Camden lad Joe Casey who, on the night of his 16th birthday, makes a decision that […]
Our House – Pimlico Opera – Isis Young Offenders Institution, Woolwich
Our House, performed by Pimlico Opera and inmates of Isis Young Offenders Institution at Woolwich, London, continues until 7 March. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ It was quite a coup for Pimlico Opera persuading Madness lead singer Suggs McPherson to replay the role as Joe’s Dad in Our House, the group’s Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical […]
Exclusive!! Suggs to reprise Our House role in prison production
EXCLUSIVE!! Madness lead singer Suggs is to reprise a role he played in the West End show Our House… alongside hardened criminals in one of Her Majesty’s prisons. He is to play Joe’s Father in Pimlico Opera’s revival of the 2002 musical, based on the songs of 1980s pop group Madness, when it is revived at […]
Our House – New Wolsey, Ipswich and touring
Our House continues at the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, and then tours until 23 November. The Smiths were tarred as the great doom-merchants of the 1980s, but you don’t have to scratch too deeply beneath the braces and bomber jackets to find that Madness could give anyone – Morrissey and Marr included – a run for their […]
