Usher to Fill in Gene Kelly's Dancing Shoes

Originally posted Friday November 16, 2007 07:00 PM EST

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Usher is getting ready to fill some serious dancing shoes – Gene Kelly's. The R&B singer, who last year starred on Broadway as Billy Flynn in Chicago, tells PEOPLE: "I'm preparing for the Movie Rocks show. I will do a remake of Gene Kelly’s Singing in the Rain. We are going to cut it on the actual sound stage where they filmed it." (Movies Rock, a special about the role music plays in movies, will air Dec. 7 on CBS.)

And that's not all that Usher has to look forward to. "I'm waiting for my son and preparing for my album. I have a lot to be proud of," he tells PEOPLE.
– Jessica Herndon