Alan Cumming Is “Burlesque” MC

Alan Cumming has joined the cast of the musical “Burlesque” for Screen Gems says Variety.

Christina Aguilera plays 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. Cher, Stanley Tucci, Cam Gigandet, Kristen Bell and Julianne Hough also star.

Steve Antin directs the project which begins shooting next week.