Editing David Cassidy (section)

===1980s===
Cassidy later stated he was broke by the 1980s, despite being successful and highly paid.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/david-cassidy-says-has-dementia-day-appearing-fall-stage-concert/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/21/david-cassidy-says-has-dementia-day-appearing-fall-stage-concert/ |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=David Cassidy says he has dementia a day after appearing to fall off stage during concert|first=David|last=Millward|date=February 21, 2017|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In 1985, music success continued with the [[Arista Records|Arista]] release of the single "The Last Kiss" (number six in the United Kingdom), with backing vocals by [[George Michael]], which was included on the album ''[[Romance (David Cassidy album)|Romance]]''. These went gold in Europe and Australia, and Cassidy supported them with a sellout tour of the United Kingdom, which resulted in the ''Greatest Hits Live'' compilation of 1986. Michael cited Cassidy as a major career influence and interviewed Cassidy for David Litchfield's ''[[Ritz Newspaper]]''.<ref>{{cite news |first=David |last=Litchfield |work=[[Ritz Newspaper]] |issue=100 |title=David Cassidy by George Michael |pages=16–19 |year=1985 |quote=The interview between DAVID and GEORGE first took place over lunch at Pier 31 Restaurant, at which they both got rather inebriated...}}</ref>

Cassidy performed in musical theater. In 1981, he toured in a revival of a pre-Broadway production of ''[[Little Johnny Jones]],'' a show originally produced in 1904 with music, lyrics, and book by [[George M. Cohan]]. (The show is excerpted in the 1942 biographic film ''[[Yankee Doodle Dandy]]'', when [[James Cagney]] as Cohan sings "[[Give My Regards to Broadway]]" and "[[The Yankee Doodle Boy]]".) However, Cassidy received negative reviews, and he was replaced by another former teen idol, [[Donny Osmond]],<ref>''C'mon, Get Happy'', p. 221</ref> before the show reached Broadway.<ref>{{cite web|author=The Broadway League |url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=4164 |title=''Little Johnny Jones'' (1982 revival) |publisher=Internet Broadway Database |date=March 21, 1982 |access-date=October 14, 2010}}</ref> Cassidy, in turn, was himself a replacement for Doug Voet as the lead character [[Joseph (Genesis)|Joseph]] in the original 1982 Broadway production of ''[[Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]].''<ref>{{cite web |title=''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'' cast replacements |url=http://ibdb.com/productionreplacements.asp?ID=4158 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322192242/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/little-johnny-jones-4164 |archive-date=March 22, 2022 |access-date=October 14, 2010 |publisher=Internet Broadway Database}}</ref> Cassidy also appeared in London's [[West End theatre|West End]] production of ''[[Time (musical)|Time]]'' and returned to Broadway in ''[[Blood Brothers (musical)|Blood Brothers]]'' alongside [[Petula Clark]] and his half-brother Shaun Cassidy.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hetrick |first=Adam |date=November 22, 2017 |title=David Cassidy, Partridge Family Star With Broadway Roots, Dies at 67 |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/david-cassidy-partridge-family-star-with-broadway-roots-dies-at-67 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113143257/https://www.playbill.com/article/david-cassidy-partridge-family-star-with-broadway-roots-dies-at-67 |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |access-date=September 4, 2021 |website=Playbill}}</ref>