Ben James-Ellis Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, alongside Joe McElderry and Lucy Kay, in 2017. He also accompanied McElderry on his UK tour throughout the same year, alongside Lloyd Daniels and fellow Any Dream Will Do finalist Keith Jack. In 2008 James-Ellis recorded a song with the "Wicked" actress Alexia Khadime for the CD "Act One – Songs From The Musicals Of Alexander S. Bermange", an album of 20 brand new recordings by 26 West End stars, released in October 2008 on Dress Circle Records. He also recorded the song "Uptown Girl" along with Daniel Boys and Keith Jack, on the
Steven Pimlott 1988, he directed a production of the "York Mystery Plays" which was staged in the city's Museum Gardens, against the backdrop of the ruined St Mary's Abbey, and which featured the Indian actor Victor Banerjee as Jesus. Also in 1988, he directed the British première of Botho Strauss's "Der Park". Pimlott developed a wide range of theatrical work, which included avant garde, Shakespeare and popular musicals, such as the revival of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" with Jason Donovan and then Phillip Schofield at the Palladium in 1991 and on Broadway in 1993, "Doctor Dolittle" at the Hammersmith Apollo