Sting is Broadway bound!

On ‘The Today Show’ this morning, the musician, 63, announced he will be joining the cast of The Last Ship — a show Sting created based on his own childhood in England — for five weeks starting on Dec. 9.

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The “Message in a Bottle” rocker will be playing the part of shipyard foreman Jackie White, a role currently occupied by his close friend, Jimmy Nail.

“Big shoes to fit,” Sting told Matt Lauer on Monday, Nov. 24. “But he’s passed me the baton for five weeks.”

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Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, at ‘The Last Ship’ pre-Broadway world premiere in June 2014 in Chicago.

“I didn’t think I would do this,” he said of the new role. “But having been to every performance, every rehearsal, I feel I’ve earned my place in the cast. I’ve done it. I know it.”

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Sting also admitted he hopes his performance will bring some positive publicity to the struggling musical. According to ‘The New York Times,’ the show has been losing approximately $75,000 per week since its Sept. 29 opening.

This isn’t the first time Sting has appeared on the Great White Way — he previously starred as Macheath in 1989’s ‘Threepenny Opera.’

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Sting after a performance of ‘Threepenny Opera’ in 1989.