(EW.com) -- Cheerios, rejoice! Jane Lynch, who won an Emmy as sharp-tongued cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester on Fox's "Glee," will make her Broadway debut this spring in the hit musical revival of "Annie." The role seems like a perfect fit for the star: Miss Hannigan, the drunken and scheming head of young Annie's orphanage who melodically complains about being surrounded by "little girls." Lynch, an Illinois native who got her start in theater at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Second City, will appear in the musical for eight weeks only, from May 16 through July 14. Two-time Tony-winner Katie Finneran, who has played Miss Hannigan since the new revival opened last November, was recently cast as Michael J. Fox's sister in an untitled new NBC sitcom that has a 22-episode commitment for this fall.
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Jane Lynch will make her Broadway debut this spring in the hit musical revival of "Annie"
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She'll play Miss Hannigan, the drunken head of young Annie's orphanage
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She'll appear in the musical for eight weeks only, from May 16 through July 14
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