Our House, a musical based on the band Madness, is coming to the Wycombe Swan between November 20 and November 25.

A full house for Our House has been announced, with street dancing sensation George Sampson confirmed to join the UK Tour of the Olivier Award-winning musical. 

Having won the second season of Britain’s Got Talent with his interpretation of Singing in the Rain, George has gone on to star in major films (Street Dance 2 and Street Dance 3D) and regular roles in Emmerdale (ITV), Waterloo Road (BBC), and Mount Pleasant (Sky). 

Other cast members include Deena Payne (Viv Hope in Emmerdale), Jason Kajdi and Sophie Matthew.

The musical has been doing a nationwide tour since August and was launched in 2002 as the brainchild of Madness frontman, Suggs, and writer Tim Frith.

Suggs, who is the composer for Our House, explains that although the show has been going for 15 years, he isn’t shocked that it is still so successful.

He said: “I couldn’t imagine it’d still be playing, not really, but anything is incremental. 

“I remember when we did a gig with Madness way back when and 40 people turned up and I remember thinking we’d made it then. 

“But it’s a real privilege in the same way it is for Madness to still be playing. 

“It’s a real privilege that people still love the Our House musical. I’ve been to see a few musicals recently and some really good ones, but I don’t think many of them are better than Our House.”

With Madness being one of the most successful British bands in the 1980s, Suggs revealed that a musical was always in the pipeline. 

He added: “We’d been talking about it for some time. We weren’t unaware of the fact our songs are quite narrative and we’d even sort of dabbled ourselves with the obvious – you know, we wrote songs about going to school, we wrote songs about your first girlfriend, we wrote songs about living in the house in the street you were brought up in. 

“But we found it much more difficult than we realised and that’s when Tim got the phone call. It’s a very different discipline to writing songs and writing albums. 

“I always remember Tim saying right at the beginning ‘I don’t want it to feel like we’ve dropped the songs into scenes just because we need a bit of music, I want the songs to drive the story and we shall make the story fit around those songs’. It was a really incredible process to watch unfold.”

With the show’s success continuing, Suggs added there is a reason why it is so good.

He said: “I’ve been to see a lot of shows and I’ve seen a lot of shows by pop bands, which will remain nameless, where you can really feel the songs have been dropped clumsily into scenes because they were hits. 

“With Our House there’s so much depth and intensity. It’s also a very human story and a very real story, which I think is difficult to do.”

For more information and tickets, visit wycombeswan.co.uk/Online