Kate Hudson scores a ten in ‘Nine’ musical bow (Video)

[HMG] One unexpected result of a time in which Hollywood’s former magic is now drowning in re-makes is the return of that long-disused attraction, the musical. And Popwatch reports that even Kate Hudson is keenly riding the wave.

Reawakened by Rob Marshall’s 2002 box-office monster, Chicago, Hollywood’s cash-focused interest in the musical genre has given rise to a movie in which some of tinsel-town’s biggest names are seen strutting their stuff.

The new movie, ‘Nine’ features Daniel Day-Lewis, Penélope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman and that singular Italian film icon, Sophia Loren. And Kate even sings.

Not known in the past for her musical skills, the 30-year old actress belts out a song celebrating the joys of both Italian cinema and Daniel’s character, a tormented Italian film director named Guido Contini [a role first offered to Javier Bardem.]

The song, “Cinema Italiano” features Kate in a show-stopping, thigh-flashing frock, encased by a set only those stylish savants who assemble in Hollywood could ever even hope to devise.

If you live through the frock, the rest of the story concerns Guido’s torment as he battles a mid-life crisis that makes him doubt both his work and his personal life; He has both a wife and a mistress, plus a young artistic muse, a chatty fashion designer and even a whore from his youth (Played by Fergie.) Into this tormented tribe steps our Miss Katie, as Stephanie — an American fashion journalist who soon catches Contini’s eye.

…And then things get strange.

‘Nine’s debut on Broadway in late ’82 scored five Tony Awards, and ‘Chicago’ won no less than six Oscars. Now Rob is back at the helm, and you can see the stunning results when the film bows nationwide on Christmas Day…