Lee Mead Children In Need charity appeal. The single, featuring "Any Dream Will Do" (performed by Mead) and "Close Every Door" (performed by all three finalists) reached number 2 in the official UK singles chart. "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat" opened in the West End on 17 July 2007 to generally good reviews: "Lee Mead… turns out to be both talented and enthusiastic… what distinguishes him is an attractive singing voice and, coming from beneath hair that owes more to Uncle Esau than father Jacob, lots of affable charisma… last night’s audience seemed enchanted" wrote Benedict Nightingale in "The Times". "Lee…
Worcester Repertory Company favouring musicals and big casts. In 1984-85 he wrote and directed a play about Woodbine Willie that featured a cast of over 200 people. Other large scale productions included "Treasure Island, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Animal Farm Dr. Faustus" and "Godspell" (starring Bonnie Langford). Masefield also developed the theatre's youth theatre provision and gave many of the young actors their professional debuts with the Worcester Repertory Company. He also appointed John Doyle as the company's Associate Director. Doyle would go on to become the theatre's Artistic Director after Masefield's departure. John Doyle