ROB GUEST Jean Valjean

TOURED: Auckland, Perth, Brisbane

BIOGRAPHY:

Rob Guest is principally a theatre performer with 36 leading roles to his credit. These include the title roles in Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Barnum, Half A Sixpence and Grease.
He has toured the world extensively appearing everywhere from Korea to Czechoslovakia, where he performed to a television audience of over 400 million people. Rob won the trophy at the Korean Song Festival in 1978 and was voted New Zealand's Professional Performer of the Year that same year. In 1979 in New Zealand he was voted Entertainer of the Year and Male Recording Artist of the Year. He also taped his own television special in conjunction with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 1981 took Rob to Las Vegas where he performed at the Dunes Hotel for eight months, then Harrahs Hotel, Atlantic City, Reno and Lake Tahoe. In 1985 Rob won the coveted FIDOF Award in Los Angeles for his performance at the World Song Festival in America. Rob's musical theatre engagements have seen him throughout Australia performing the role of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables, for which he received a Best Male Performer in a Leading Role Green Room Award in 1991. In 1992 and 1993 Rob was awarded the Best New Zealand Theatrical Performer of the Year for his roles in Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera. On New Year's Day 1994, Rob received an OBE for his services to the New Zealand Entertainment Industry. In 1995 Rob travelled to London at the invitation of Cameron Mackintosh to appear in the 10th Anniversary Concert Performance of Les Miserables at the Royal Albert Hall. On television Rob has hosted Man 0 Man for Grundy Television and the special, Missing Pieces, both for the Seven Network. Rob's CD entitled Unmasked is available in record stores both in Australia and New Zealand. In 1998 Rob has performed in The Concert in The Quarry, Dunedin, before an audience of 1 1,000 people and at the Gala Opening of the St James Theatre, Wellington, with Elaine Paige. He has also sung the Australian National Anthem at the AFL Grand Final. Recently Rob has performed in concert in Canberra, the Cassegrain Winery and the Regent Theatre, Palmerston North, New Zealand. In September 1998 Rob completed a record seven years playing the title role of the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera both in Australia and New Zealand. Rob has just completed recording a new CD, The Magic of Christmas.

RECENT PROJECTS:

Rob starred in the original Australian production of Jolson. In 2000, Rob took over the role of Captain Von Trapp in the touring production of Sound of Music. Currently, Rob is preparing for a concert tour of New Zealand and later this will reprise his role of Jolson for the Melbourne season.

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