Actor Kelsey Grammer, shown Sept. 10 in Anaheim, Calif., played the psychiatrist Frasier for 20 years, on the series Cheers and Frasier, and will star in La Cage Aux Folles in New York next year. (Reed Saxon/Associated Press)

Longtime Frasier star Kelsey Grammer is to make his Broadway musical debut in a revival of La Cage Aux Folles next year, producers announced Tuesday.

Grammer, whose current Hank TV series was cancelled last week by ABC, will begin rehearsing in March for the musical.

He'll play the gay owner of a nightclub on the French Riviera whose son is about to marry into a conservative family in the musical, which requires him to sing songs such as We Are What We Are and Song on the Sand. British actor Douglas Hodge will also star.

The musical was revived in London in 2008 to great success and will be in its second revival on Broadway.

Grammer has previously performed Shakespeare on Broadway and he's also got some singing background.

"I had a wonderful experience playing Henry Higgins in the New York Philharmonic's My Fair Lady in 2007, which made me long to perform in a musical on Broadway," Grammer said in a statement.

"Jerry Herman and Harvey Fierstein's wonderfully funny and touching show is about being true to yourself and the challenges you face as a parent, as a spouse and as a family. I cannot wait to work with Douglas Hodge and to sing these magnificent songs every night."

Grammer played the psychiatrist Frasier for 20 years, on the series Cheers and Frasier, but since then has had two short-lived sitcoms, Back to You and Hank. He also is the voice for Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons and produces Medium.

The show is to begin previews April 6 and open April 18 at New York's Longacre Theatre.