CADY HUFFMAN: TOM BOY, SHOW GIRL!

CADY HUFFMAN: TOM BOY, SHOW GIRL

June 27, 2019

Best known for her Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award winning performance as “Ulla” in The Producers on Broadway, Cady will grace the 801 with an evening of song and style during her new show – TOMBOY, SHOWGIRL. 

As talkinbroadway‘s Patrick Thomas wrote about the premiere of  Tony Award Winner Cady Huffman’s new show,

 “Cady has too much talent…she can sing (mezzo and soprano), handle roles both comic and dramatic, was a ballerina as a child, and can charm the hell out of a cabaret audience…From the moment she walked on stage, her million-watt smile lit up the room and presented a perfect cabaret show: songs you know, a few you don’t, some delivered in different arrangements or styles than you’re used to, and just the right amount of patter. “I was the girl who chased the boys, caught them, and then held them so the other girls could kiss them.”

She began the show with a full-throated version of “Willamania”… But it was her more tender choices that really made an impact. Her versions of “Maria” and the 1980s Berlin hit written for the film Top Gun “Take My Breath Away” suited her voice perfectly. For the latter number, Huffman told the story of the night she met Tom Cruise at the premiere of Top Gun and ended up partying all night with him and some of his entourage. She also did a very funny lounge version of the Sir Mix-a-Lot hit, “Baby Got Back.”

Tomboy or showgirl? Cady showed us both sides of her personality—and we loved them equally.

Her other Broadway credits include the Tony Award winning play The Nance opposite Nathan Lane, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. And who can forget her unforgettable recurring role on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” where she almost became Larry David’s 10th anniversary present. This success also brought her to the Food Network’s kitchen stadium where she judged for 10 consecutive seasons on “Iron Chef America.”

This is Musical COMEDY at it's best!