VIDEO : Nicole Scherzinger Joins the Cast of ABC's 'Dirty Dancing' Reboot

ABC's Dirty Dancing has cast its Penny. Nicole Scherzinger has been tapped to take on the role played by Cynthia Rhodes, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The three-hour TV movie is being written and exec produced by Jessica Sharzer (American Horror Story, The L Word) and, like the 1987 Patrick Swayze/Jennifer Grey starrer, revolves around Baby (Abigail Breslin), an innocent young woman who vacations with her affluent parents at an early-1960s Catskill Mountains resort and gets swept off her feet by Johnny (Colt Prattes), a handsome, working-class dance instructor. Debra Messing co-stars as Marjorie Houseman, Baby's mother.