Editing The Monkees (section)

==== Musical ====
A stage musical opened in the UK at the [[Manchester Opera House]] on Friday March 30, 2012, and was dedicated to Davy Jones (the Jones family attended the official opening on April 3).<ref name="Playbill">{{cite magazine |last=Gioia |first=Michael |title=Monkee Business, Featuring Songs of The Monkees, Premieres March 30 at Manchester Opera House |url=https://www.playbill.com/news/article/161263-Monkee-Business-Featuring-Songs-of-The-Monkees-Premieres-March-30-at-Manchester-Opera-House |url-status=dead |magazine=Playbill |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830001948/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/161263-Monkee-Business-Featuring-Songs-of-The-Monkees-Premieres-March-30-at-Manchester-Opera-House |archive-date=August 30, 2012 |access-date=August 6, 2012 }}</ref> The production is a [[Jukebox musical]] and starred Stephen Kirwan, Ben Evans, Tom Parsons and Oliver Savile<ref name="Playbill" /> as actors playing the parts of the Monkees (respectively Dolenz, Jones, Nesmith, Tork) who are hired by an unscrupulous businessman to go on a world tour pretending to be the real band. The show includes 18 Monkees songs plus numbers by other 60s artists. It ran in [[Manchester]] as part of the "Manchester Gets it First" program until April 14, 2012, before a UK tour.<ref name="Playbill" /><ref name="BBC Musical">{{cite news |date=November 4, 2011 |title=Monkees musical to hit the stage |newspaper=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15591897 |url-status=live |access-date=August 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510173333/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15591897 |archive-date=May 10, 2012}}</ref> Following its Manchester run, the show appeared in the [[Glasgow King's Theatre]] and the [[Sunderland Empire Theatre]].<ref name="Playbill" />