Brooke Shields will soon be joining the cast of the Broadway revival of "Wonderful Town."

Shields will replace Donna Murphy on Sept. 28 as writer Ruth Sherwood, a young woman from Ohio determined to make it big in New York in the 1930s.

The musical, which has a score by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, was first done on Broadway in 1953 with Rosalind Russell in the leading role. The revival opened last November and won a 2004 Tony Award for best choreography for its director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall.

Shields has worked on Broadway before, taking over for Rosie O'Donnell as Rizzo in the long-running revival of "Grease" and she later played Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theatre Company production of "Cabaret."

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The actress has appeared in such movies as "Pretty Baby," "The Blue Lagoon" and "King of the Gypsies" and starred in the NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" for four seasons.

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