Italian actor Gigi Proietti is
celebrating his 76th birthday on Wednesday with his family in
Rome, and has a 'top secret' TV special in the works with for
the coming year.
Proietti is coming off the success of his 10th season as
director of Rome's Globe Theatre in Villa Borghese.
This year's run hosted 65,000 spectators and saw Proietti
on stage in "Tribute to Shakespeare" based on "Edmund Kean", the
one-man show that Raymund Fitz Simons created for Ben Kingsley.
He also had a sold-out performance at Rome's Auditorium on
October 31 with his show "War Horses", a sort of career
retrospective of his 50 years in the business.
The show has already been seen by more than 50,000
spectators across 18 performances, with more dates in the coming
months.
But Proietti's biggest upcoming project is that of a TV
special in the new year, whose details still haven't been
revealed but will be broadcast in prime time on RAI 1 for three
consecutive Saturday evenings.
There's also talk of Proietti's return for a third season
as Bruno Palmieri, the news journalist with an infallible
memory, on the TV show "Una pallottola nel cuore" (A Bullet in
the Heart).
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