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
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