Cher Heading to Broadway in New Musical Based on Her Life

Music superstar Cher just announced via Twitter that a musical based on her life is currently in the works. Cher revealed that the show, which is aiming for a Broadway run, will feature two other actresses as younger 'Cher,' with Cher playing the older version of herself. The show will of course feature the music from her legendary career.

Cher made her Broadway debut in 1982's Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Director Mike Nichols saw her in the play and cast her opposite Meryl Streep in her film debut- Silkwood.

Casting has not yet been announced.

She writes @cher:

Prod r trying 2 write musical of my life at the moment ! Its very Interesting idea. 3 chers ! 1 right b4 i met son through S&c yrs.1  

Now!They all 3 talk 2 each other &Sing 2gether!I'm help.2 write cause i was there & know stories that no1 knows but me ! I hope it happens!

Cher has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globes, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for her work in film, music, and television. She began her career as a backup singer and came to prominence in 1965 as one-half of the pop rock duo Sonny & Cher with the success of their song "I Got You Babe".

She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist and became a television star in 1971 with The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, a variety show for which she won a Golden Globe. A well-received performance in the film Silkwood earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 1983. In the following years, she starred in a string of hit films including Mask, The Witches of Eastwick, and Moonstruck, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1988.