We’re Looking Forward to Cady Huffman’s One-Woman Show, ‘My Date With Tom Cruise’

Cady Huffman, who won a Tony in 2001 playing Ulla in The Producers, has been woefully absent from the musical-theater scene since. Our hopes are high, though, for the show Huffman told us she’s working on: My Date With Tom Cruise. The one-woman cabaret, which she mentioned to us last night at the Actors Company Theater’s fifteenth-anniversary gala, is indeed based in truth — she says she and Cruise met years ago at the New York premiere of Top Gun. “I was there with a friend of mine, Tony Edwards, who played Goose.� (GOOOOOOOOSE!) “I was in a Broadway show at the time� — 1986’s short-lived Bob Fosse musical Big Deal — “and, you know, we were just hanging out.�

So what happened between her and Maverick? “We danced the night away,� she said, adding slyly, “I’ll just say he ended up riding me home on his motorcycle at 7:30 in the morning.� (Later, though, she confessed, “It was not as exciting as it sounds.�) My Date With Tom Cruise will go up soon, “hopefully in the Metropolitan Room, like in May or something,� Huffman told us, adding, “I gotta get it all situated, figure out what songs I want to sing.� Given the short-lived nature of the romance (she confessed the premiere was “our one evening together�), we’re hoping for at least one heart-stopping torch song about the cultist who got away. We’re also trying to think of a song about unrequited love for a gay guy (leave suggestions in the comments!) … but Huffman does not believe the endless rumors. “The baby is his!� —Ben Kawaller