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* EvilIsSexy: Reecey, {{In-Universe}}.
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''Our House'' is a 2003 British JukeboxMusical featuring the music of {{Music/Madness}}. The book was written by Tim Firth (who wrote Film/CalendarGirls and Series/RogerAndTheRottentrolls, and co-wrote Film/KinkyBoots).

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''Our House'' is a 2003 British JukeboxMusical featuring the music of {{Music/Madness}}.Music/MadnessBand. The book was written by Tim Firth (who wrote Film/CalendarGirls and Series/RogerAndTheRottentrolls, and co-wrote Film/KinkyBoots).
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* WhenSheSmiles: "NW5", which Sarah sings in the Black World, discusses this trope and Bad Joe.
* YourCheatingHeart: Pressman is implied to be sleeping with his secretary.

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* WhenSheSmiles: "NW5", which Sarah sings in the Black World, discusses this trope and Bad Joe.
* YourCheatingHeart: Pressman is implied to be sleeping with his secretary.
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* TragicVillain: Bad Joe, along the same lines as [[TheGodfather Michael Corleone]].

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* TragicVillain: Bad Joe, along the same lines as [[TheGodfather Michael Corleone]].Joe.
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AntiVillain: Bad Joe, to some degree. He does bad things partly out of a desperate need to prove that he can achieve good things for his family.

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* AntiVillain: Bad Joe, to some degree. He does bad things partly out of a desperate need to prove that he can achieve good things for his family.

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* AntiVillain: Bad Joe, to some degree. He does bad things partly out of a desperate need to prove that he can achieve good things for his family.

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* AnAesop: [[spoiler: The right path may not be the easiest, but is much better in the long run]].
AntiVillain: Bad Joe, to some degree. He does bad things partly out of a desperate need to prove that he can achieve good things for his family.



* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Good Joe goes to prison twice, and even had to live out of his car, but ultimately marries Sarah, is surrounded by people who love and care about him, including his Mother alive and well, with Pressman & Reecey convicted for their crimes]].

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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Good Joe goes to prison twice, and even had to live out of his car, but ultimately marries Sarah, is surrounded by people who love and care about him, including his Mother alive and well, with Pressman & Reecey convicted for their crimes]].crimes against Joe's Family]].
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Good Joe goes to prison twice, and even had to live out of his car, but ultimately marries Sarah, is surrounded by people who love and care about him, including his Mother alive and well, with Pressman & Reecey convicted for their crimes]].
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''Our House'' is a 2003 British JukeboxMusical featuring the music of {{Music/Madness}}. The book was written by Tim Firth (who wrote Film/CalendarGirls and Series/RogerAndTheRottentrolls, and co-wrote Film/KinkyBoots).

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''Our House'' is a 2003 British JukeboxMusical featuring the music of {{Music/Madness}}. The book was written by Tim Firth (who wrote Film/CalendarGirls and Series/RogerAndTheRottentrolls, and co-wrote Film/KinkyBoots).Film/KinkyBoots).

The show is set in TurnOfTheMillennium Camden Town, northwest London. It is focused around Casey Street, a residential street. The central characters are:
* Joseph "Joe" Casey, a young man from a family of builders.
* Sarah, Joe's girlfriend.
* Joe's dad, who made a bad decision early in his life.
* Kath Casey, Joe's mother.
* Emmo and Lewis, Joe's best mates and surrogate brothers. Emmo is more boisterous, Lewis is more sensitive.
* Billie and Angie, Sarah's best mates. Heavily sarcastic social climbers.
* Daniel "Reecey" Reece, a petty criminal who went to school with Joe. Described in the foreword to the script as "a smiling, charming, superficially likeable force of darkness".
* (Mr.) Colin Pressman, a middle-aged, thoroughly amoral property developer who wants to bulldoze Casey Street to make way for gentrification.

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* AffablyEvil: Reecey, most of the time.
* AlasPoorVillain: It's hard not to feel sorry for [[spoiler:Bad Joe after the burning of Casey Street.]]
* AntiVillain: Bad Joe, to some degree. He does bad things partly out of a desperate need to prove that he can achieve good things for his family.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: While he isn't the blood sibling of any other character, the way Lewis is treated suggests he is seen as this.
* BadBoss: Pressman. This is especially clear in the Black World.
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the Black World, Pressman is untouched by the prosecution of Reecey and Bad Joe; he gets everything he wants.]]
* BerserkButton: Pressman clamps down ruthlessly at even the slightest sign of dissent.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Reecey has most of the best jokes on the villains' side, and is also [[spoiler:the most directly murderous character in the show.]]
* BigBad: Pressman, obviously.
* BigBadWannabe: Bad Joe. He wants to succeed in the same kind of business in which predatory sociopath Pressman has dominated, and he's willing to go to great lengths to do it, but he still has morals - he's just too cowardly and in any case too greedy to obey them. [[spoiler:Pressman and Reecey are more effective predators than he is, and this is what ultimately brings him down.]]
* BlatantLies: In the Black World, Pressman asks Bad Joe whether his name has anything to do with the name of Casey Street. It is. [[spoiler:Joe doesn't admit it]].
* ButtMonkey: Lewis, throughout, with varying degrees of love.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Joe's Dad spends the entire show calling him out (inaudibly).
* CrowdSong: "The Sun and Rain Reprise (Stallholders)".
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:In the Black World, Kath dies in a house fire.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: What exactly Joe's dad did that got him killed is never mentioned.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The ending of the Black World, with Kath's death, Bad Joe going to jail for life, and the utter destruction of the Casey family.]]
* DirtyCoward: The initial and most important difference between Bad Joe and Good Joe.
* DisappearedDad: Joe's dad, who is dead. [[spoiler:They are reunited for a few lines at the very end.]]
* DyingDream: Possibly. [[spoiler:With the time rewind in the final scene, it is unclear whether any of the show except the last few lines was ever actually real for anyone except Joe's dad.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Reecey to Pressman.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Bad Joe. [[spoiler:When his actions lead to his mother's nightmare-inducing death in a fire, it breaks him in a way he can't come back from.]]
* EvilIsSexy: Reecey, {{In-Universe}}.
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. The show is a jukebox musical with few arrangement changes from the original tracks, so all the male characters sing in the comfortable middle range.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Pressman. He is initially described as 'seemingly avuncular' in the script, but the instant he is pushed, the facade slips.
* FaceHeelTurn: While his descent into evil runs through the show, Bad Joe's definitive slip into villainy happens at the point where he denies his name.
* GhostSong: By definition, any time Joe's dad is singing.
* GoodParents: Joe's Dad, who is dead but can't rest until he makes sure his son is on the right path.
* GreekChorus: Emmo and Lewis, and Billie and Angie.
* HappilyMarried: Sarah and Joe. [[spoiler:She marries Bad Joe at the beginning of Act II, but he loses her by the end. She doesn't marry Good Joe until the end of Act II.]]
* HateSink: Pressman. He's a completely amoral [[AcceptableOccupationalTargets property developer]]; he is superficially genial but cracks very few jokes, in contrast to the LaughablyEvil Reecey.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler:Narrowly averted at the end. The show rewinds back to a few minutes before the PointOfDivergence and proceeds the exact same way as it did the first time, but two lines before the original PointOfDivergence, it branches off in a new direction entirely.]]
* IdiotBall: Primarily an issue for Joe, who makes some clangingly stupid decisions throughout, in both timelines. Good Joe holds it worse, mostly in Act I, [[spoiler:but comes out better.]]
* IdiotHero: Joe, to an extent - it gets him into half the situations he ends up in, in both worlds.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In the Black World, [[spoiler:Sarah leaves Bad Joe]] at the point when [[spoiler:he is plotting how to avoid being convicted for his own mother's murder]] at [[spoiler:her funeral.]]
* {{Irony}}: Bad Joe wanted to make his family proud. [[spoiler:What remains of his family at the end is quite the opposite.]]
* JerkassWoobie: Bad Joe. Even near his lowest, just before the end of Act II, he wants to provide for his family and make them proud. [[spoiler:After his actions lead to the horrific death of his mother, he cries like a baby - but he recovers quickly and begins to think of his own fate, making it clear to Sarah how far he has fallen.]]
* JerkJock: Reecey.
* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Kind of. It isn't long after the PointOfDivergence before Bad Joe is staging break-ins at the premises of potential clients to whom he is selling alarms. However, he doesn't accelerate downhill at the same speed after that, sliding more gradually.
* KarmaHoudini: In the Black World, [[spoiler:Pressman]], who continues unscathed. [[spoiler:Not so much in the White World, where Reecey names him as a co-conspirator in the burning of the Casey Street house.]]
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Kath]], in the Black World.
* KillItWithFire: In the Black World, [[spoiler:Reecey burns down the Casey Street house, killing Kath.]] It is not clear whether [[spoiler:he knew.]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Good Joe has some of this going on.
* LoveInterests: Joe and Sarah for each other.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Everything Bad Joe does, he justifies as wanting to provide a good future for his family.
* LoveTriangle: Between Good Joe, Sarah, and Sarah's new beau, Callum. However, it isn't a driving force in the plot.
* ManlyTears: There is a decent amount of crying by men. It is never presented as shameful.
* ManipulativeBastard: Reecey. To a lesser extent, Bad Joe.
* MinorCharacterMajorSong: "Embarrassment" is one of these for a bunch of minor characters who never appear again.
* MoralEventHorizon: Bad Joe and Reecey simultaneously, with the [[spoiler:burning of Casey Street in the Black World.]]
* MultipleEndings: Given the SplitTimelinesPlot.
** Good Joe [[spoiler:gets to live HappilyEverAfter with Sarah.]]
** Bad Joe [[spoiler:accidentally gets Kath killed, loses everyone who loved him, and goes to jail for the rest of his life, in a brutal DownerEnding.]]
** [[spoiler:And the true ending: in the last 30 seconds of the show, time rewinds to Joe's sixteenth birthday, where his actions are ever so subtly different in a way which avoids the original PointOfDivergence altogether.]]
* NiceGuy: Good Joe. Bad Joe is a lot slimier, but he is still driven by fundamentally sympathetic motives.
* TheNicknamer: Reecey constantly refers to both Joes as 'Jojo'.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: [[spoiler:Reecey]]. It's less to do with him having a harmless nature, and more to do with the fact that there was no reason for him to affect either Good or Bad Joe - [[spoiler:until it turns out in the middle of Act II that he's an arsonist paid by Pressman.]]
* OfficialCouple: Joe and Sarah.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Reecey. His full name is Daniel Reece, but it isn't mentioned until it becomes important - [[spoiler:when it turns out that he and Pressman's paid arsonist, 'Danny,' are the same person.]]
* OnTheRebound: In the White World, there are definite overtones of this in Sarah's relationship with Callum.
* PsychoForHire: Reecey.
* RedOniBlueOni: Joe for himself. Good Joe has issues with rashness and lack of caution. Bad Joe tends to be cooler and more reserved.
* RepriseMedley: Happens repeatedly throughout the show.
* SayMyName: "Reecey!" and not too long after that, "[[spoiler:Mum!]]"
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Bad Joe]], by the end of Act II.
* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:If you believe that the rewind in the Act II finale wipes out both the White and Black Worlds completely, then the entire show is this.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Joe's dad, for Joe and Sarah. It's unclear how much of this is because Dad likes Sarah specifically, and how much of it is because he doesn't want Joe to make the same mistakes he did.
* ShowWithinAShow: "Wings of a Dove", in Act II, is implied to be taking place at least partly in-universe, as part of Bad Joe and Sarah's "paradise wedding".
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: Somewhere in the middle. A pretty strong theme of true love runs throughout the script, along with one good turn deserving and receiving another. However, the show is pretty cynical about government and business.
* TheSociopath: Reecey.
* SplitTimelinesPlot: Joe [[ItMakesSenseInContext accidentally]] breaks into an apartment, setting off an alarm and summoning the police. The timeline splits into two worlds: White and Black. In the White World, he stays and gives himself up, becoming Good Joe. In the Black World, he runs to avoid capture, becoming Bad Joe.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Joe and his father; not necessarily physically, but they make the exact same mistakes.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Kath's death in the Black World. It utterly destroys Joe and everyone he loves.]]
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In the Black World, [[spoiler:Bad Joe asks Reecey to non-violently break into the Casey house. Reecey sets it on fire. Kath dies.]]
* TookALevelInJerkass: Bad Joe, throughout.
* TragicVillain: Bad Joe, along the same lines as [[TheGodfather Michael Corleone]].
* TriumphantReprise: "Primrose Hill/Our House (Reprise)," which ends up as a to-the-note exact reprise of the opening "Our House" [[spoiler:because thanks to the time rewind, it's the same song, taking place at the same time.]]
* TrueCompanions: Joe, Emmo and Lewis. To a lesser extent, Sarah, Billie and Angie.
* VillainProtagonist: Bad Joe, for the Black World.
* VillainSong: PlayedWith.
** Bad Joe, the VillainProtagonist of the Black World, has several songs, but none of them are a Villain Song per se.
** Reecey, TheDragon, has "Baggy Trousers", which doesn't set out his villainous motives but gives a general impression of who he is.
** On the other hand, Pressman, the BigBad, has very few sung lines and no song of his own.
* VitriolicBestBuds: Joe with Emmo and Lewis. Billie and Angie also have a less intense version of this vibe going on with Joe, but there is clearly more genuine dislike there.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Pressman offers this to Bad Joe. Bad Joe accepts [[spoiler:and is destroyed.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: To some extent, Bad Joe, ultimately. [[spoiler:It gets his mother killed.]]
* WhamEpisode: The denouement of Act II, in both the White and Black Worlds.
* WhamShot: An incident which qualifies because it is often done with a video overlay - [[spoiler:the burning of the house on Casey Street.]]
* WhenSheSmiles: "NW5", which Sarah sings in the Black World, discusses this trope and Bad Joe.
* YourCheatingHeart: Pressman is implied to be sleeping with his secretary.
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''Our House'' is a 2003 British JukeboxMusical featuring the music of {{Music/Madness}}. The book was written by Tim Firth (who wrote Film/CalendarGirls and Series/RogerAndTheRottentrolls, and co-wrote Film/KinkyBoots).

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