ROBERT TRUPP !

The Musical

The longest running classic since the Oxford Dictionary.     Isle Of Arran Mean Swine’s Gazette

Bigger than Mae West’s derrierre. The Hank Janson Memorial Fan Club

With a cast of almost enough to fill the Gulargambone phone book and  that’s not including four daughters, nine grandchildren, fourteen great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild Australian Taxation Office.

One of the greatest mediocrities since William Yeahbuttno, the celebrated contradictor. His close friend Gary Kingcott

Able to convince engineers and milkmen that he actually possesses talent and capable of turning a best seller into a load of drivel. Australian Listening Library Editor

You’ve seen the play, now read the book!

Warning: Do not read the end first. It is dishonest.

Robert began his career in Great Britain in 1948 singing in the four hundred strong City of Birmingham Children’s Choir in such hit shows as Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Oratorio and The English Festival Of Song where he accused the other three hundred and ninety nine children of singing out of tune. Shortly after this the organisation known as The Big Brother Movement received three hundred and ninety nine applications for migration to the antipodes attaching Robert’s name and address to every one.

In 1952 he departed for Australia before the authorities discovered why Great Britain wasn’t so great after all. He also escaped before they could draft him into the Armed Services. But, once more, Robert was not the huge coward his friends labeled him. He was merely a minor coward. After studying the works of Spike Milligan, Stephen Leacock and James Thurber, he decided to lend his talents to the literary society. Unfortunately so were thousands of other aspiring Hemingways and the Literary Societies were growing more than a mite jack of them! He considered the possibility of hiring an amanuensis but unfortunately didn’t know what it was, with the result of of him learning how to read. This proved a marvelous asset and within a year he had the alphabet off by heart. Unfortunately it made his head ache, so he became a musician, and

The Music Was Just the Beginning.