Editing Mike Read (section)

===Musicals===
Read has staged a number of musicals, including<ref name=mikeread-theatre>{{cite web|title=Theatre|url=http://www.mikereaduk.com/theatre/|work=Mike Read official website|access-date=20 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319014308/http://www.mikereaduk.com/theatre/|archive-date=19 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ''Young Apollo'' (a musical about the life of [[Rupert Brooke]]); ''Oscar'' (a 2004 production about [[Oscar Wilde]], which was derided by critics and closed after one performance);<ref name=bbc-wilde>{{cite news |title=Wilde show flops after one night |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3944431.stm |access-date=20 January 2013 |work=BBC News |date=22 October 2004}}</ref><ref name=guardian-wilde>{{cite news |last=Trueman |first=Matt |title=Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2012/feb/08/mike-read-oscar-wilde-musical|access-date=20 January 2013 |date=8 February 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> ''[[Great Expectations]]''; ''A Christmas Carol''; ''[[Cliff - The Musical]]'' (which closed after three months) and ''Ricky Nelson...Teenage Idol''. Read took one of the lead roles in the ''Cliff'' musical, touring with it and appearing for a three-month run in the [[West End theatre|West End]] at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]]. His production ''Betjeman'' (based on his musical settings of poems by Sir [[John Betjeman]]) has occasionally been staged for charities, including the [[Royal Marsden Hospital]] and [[Children with Cancer UK|Children With Leukaemia]]. Actors appearing in his musicals and shows have included [[Nyree Dawn Porter]], [[Brian Glover]], [[Colin Baker]], [[Anton Rogers]], [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Alvin Stardust]] and [[Bernard Cribbins]].<ref name=mikeread-theatre />