Alan Cumming has boarded the Screen Gems musical Burlesque, from writer-director Steve Antin, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera.

According to Variety, the film also features Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, Kristen Bell and Julianne Hough. Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds herself at a neo-burlesque club. Cumming will play the club's gender-bending host and master of ceremonies.

Production begins Nov. 9.