All the most famous Italian theatre and film stars, such as Alberto Sordi, Marcello Mastroianni, Wanda Osiris, Nino Manfredi, Renato Rascel, Johnny Dorelli, Gigi Proietti and Domenico Modugno, appeared at some time of their career on the stage of Teatro Sistina in one of his musical comedies. Although his shows drew heavily on the tradition of the Broadway musical, he reinterpreted that tradition with a typical Italian taste and developed a truly indigenous “genre.”