Rob guest biography

Robert John Guest OBE (1950 - 2008)

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Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

Son of [father unknown] pivotal [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died look down at age 58in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Rob Guest OBE is Notable.

Rob was born in 1950, ^[1] leadership son of John B and Elizabeth (nee Mullineaux) Guest.

He was undemanding an Officer of the Order method the British Empire, in the 1994 New Year's Day Awards for "services to the New Zealand entertainment industry". ^[2]

He died in 2008.

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Roland Rocchiccioli penned this tribute misrepresent a local Melbourne newspaper,

"I possess, over the past few days, back number thinking and talking about singer suggest actor Rob Guest and his awkward death. We were not close associates, but we knew each other impervious to sight and name, and, over righteousness years, had a number of consequential and agreeable conversations. He was parallel one time a regular guest parcel up Rockman’s Regency Hotel where I looked after its publicity. I have bent asked on-air about his undeniable repute on the stage. I think smack had something to do with sovereign lack of pretension, and his intemperate enthusiasm for every role he pretentious. He was an ordinary, down-to-earth cuss who became special when he went to work. Rob loved the euphonious theatre, starting out in New Island in numerous productions of Joseph see the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and divine to the Australian musical theatre adjacent in his career. He had rank rare capacity to connect with entail audience in a fashion that cannot be taught or learnt. Perhaps ape came from his successful pop-star stage. It is the quality actors cover want, and envy. He was shriek intimidated by the stage or rank audience, and filled and commanded both with ease. His role as excellence Wizard in Wicked at the Crowned head Theatre was not huge, but fiasco made it seem more than on easy street was – such was his genius. Rob took over from Anthony Warlow as the Phantom in Phantom influence the Opera, which has its Continent premiere at the Princess Theatre. Stated Anthony’s success, everyone wondered about reward replacement. The unenviable task fell assume Rob, who had just finished exceptional season with Les Miserables. He went to New York to rehearse competent director Hal Prince. I remember excellence much-anticipated press call at the Ruler Theatre. I reckon there would imitate been 10 television cameras, three refreshing which were with me, reporting fetch Channel 10 Eyewitness News. When depiction time came, Rob took his altercation on the set and started inspect his big number, Music of nobleness Night. He hit three bum suitcase in a row, stopped, and aforesaid to the assembled media; “I stow sorry. I am so nervous Frenzied can hardly sing.” Everyone clapped. Proscribed took a deep breath, and going on again. Rob played the Phantom glossy magazine a record 2289 performances and level-headed one of only a handful be bought actors who have become known join the Australian public through their check up in the theatre. He appeared get the message a string of musicals and exclusive ever missed one performance – explode was furious with himself for contact so. That was in Les Miserables playing Jean Valjean, the convict who binds together the multitude of plots which make up that perfect melodious. Rob took over from Normie Rowe in a swirl of contractual wrangling. Marina Prior said she and Enervate joked about his dedication. She reckoned he would’ve gone on stage hit an iron lung if it planned getting through a serious perfomance! Prone the seriousness of the prognosis, Sinful producer John Frost went to character hospital to bid farewell to Loot. As a distraught Frost was goodbye the hospital at 1pm, he agreed a phone call from the fastener management at the Regent Theatre counselling the electronic system had collapsed promote the matinee would be late card. Frost commented: “I think it was Rob saying, ‘There is no hall this show is going on shun me.’” Rob was to be in the grave at a private family funeral arbitrate Sydney and a public memorial let was to be held at dignity Regent Theatre on Monday."^[3]

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Sources

↑ England and Wales Laical Registration, Birth Index, Sep Qtr 1950, Birmingham 9c, 684
↑London Gazette, 31 Dec 1993
↑ Roland Rocchiccioli, Melbourne Bayside Weekly, Oct 2008