Back by popular demand! The Graduate Hotel presents the second annual Spectacular, Spectacular! A Holiday Cabaret.
Spectacular, Spectacular! A Holiday Cabaret, invites local artists, and special guests to raise funds for Princeton Porchfest 2026. It is a fun-filled opportunity to bring together the community to laugh, sing, dance, and celebrate the accomplishments of the year. The evening promises to manifest JOY for the year to come with artists including:
Ride or Die
The Princeton Tigertones
The Hopewell Valley Saxophone Trio
Alison Prussing
Cheryl Fitzgerald
Featuring vocal stylings of the Broadway Star, Mariand Torres!
Showings are at 6pm and 8pm
About Mariand Torres
Mariand is currently in the Broadway company of Alicia Keys’ hit musical, Hell’s Kitchen. She has also been seen on Broadway in the musical Lempicka-where she stood by for and performed the titular role to great acclaim- as Elphaba in Wicked, in the Tony-award winning musical Hadestown and in the original cast of In Transit, Broadway’s first acapella musical. Mariand also had the great pleasure of touring across North America as Elphaba in Wicked.
Other notable credits include: originating the role of Millie in Hell’s Kitchen at the Public Theater, the Japan world premiere of Prince of Broadway, a retrospective on the career of the legendary Hal Prince, directed by Susan Stroman and Mr. Prince himself, and the off Broadway run of Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. She recently concluded a critically acclaimed run of the original musical Life After at the Ed Mirvish Theater in Toronto, for which is was nominated for a Dora Award. Regionally she has been seen as Eva Perón in Evita, the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, and Helen Bechdel in Fun Home, among others.
Mariand has appeared on television in Law & Order SVU, Madam Secretary, and in the upcoming Hallmark film Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story, and can be heard as a principal vocalist in the Grammy nominated recording of Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots (Broadway Records).
