Nicole Kidman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Stacy Ferguson (Fergie), Marion  Cotillard will all have to go through boot camp before they allowed to begin filming for the movie version of ‘Nine’.

Director Rob Marshall is putting them a Fame-style boot camp to make sure they can sing and dance adequately. Penelope Cruz says she is looking forward to it.

“We have a camp in London where you go from the dancing room to the singing room, to the acting room to the dialect coach. It’s all day like that and I can’t wait to get started.”

Sounds like a whole lotta work to me. I guess that’s why they get paid the big bucks. Since this is a musical, and I know most of you kids don’t know jack about musicals…here is a plot summary.

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.