On With The Show: A Broadway White Christmas Cabaret

Adam received his BFA in Musical Theatre from Coastal Carolina University before making his Broadway debut in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Adam has also been seen in Chess, Pippin, and Once Upon A Mattress on Broadway, Grand Hotel and Oliver at Encores, and the National Broadway Tours of Miss Saigon and Dirty Dancing. He was last seen in Disney’s Hercules and Gun & Powder at Paper Mill Playhouse and has most recently finished co-directing/choreographing Broadway Backwards.

ALYSHA UMPHRESS Broadway credits include the original Broadway companies of On the Town, American Idiot, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Bring it On!.Other Broadway/Off Broadway; Pricilla Queen of the Desert. Smokey Joe’s Café (Lortel Nomination and Chita Rivera Award), Scotland, PA (Roundabout), andMake Me A Song (the music of William Finn).SelectedRegional Theatre; City of Angels Ogunquit Playhouse, Damn Yankees, The BedwetterArena Stage, Beaches (Helen Hayes Award nomination for Best Leading Actress) Signature Theatre. Her television credits include Murphy on two seasons of Netflix’s Bonding, Royal Pains, Girls5eva,Chicago Med, BlueBloods, AHS: Delicate, Law & Order: SVU, Fosse/Verdon, and Nurse Jackie. She performs withsymphonies throughout the US and Europe and made her principal soloist debut as Ruth Sherwood in Bernstein’s Wonderful Townat the world-famous LaScala opera house in Milan, Italy and with the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle (recorded for the LSO label and available wherever you stream music). She is the 2023 American Traditions Vocal Competition Gold Medalist. Graduate of the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory.

Farah Alvin has appeared on Broadway in the TONY award winning revivals of Nine and Grease!, as well as Saturday Night Fever, The Look of Love, and It Shoulda Been You,andItShouldaBeenYouand the special Broadway eventsAChristmasCarolandRubenandClay’sChristmasSpectacular.She is probably best known for her starring role of Marcy in the Off-Broadway cult hit I Love You Because and her Drama Desk nominated performance as Missy Miller in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Marvelous Wonderettes. Farah has performed in many more Off-Broadway shows and is a fixture in the New York concert and cabaret scene, performing regularly at venues like Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kaufman Music Center, 92nd Street Y, 54 Below and the Greenroom 42 where she ran a series of 70’s themed concerts from 2019 through 2023. Farah has been fortunate enough to perform with the the National Symphonies of Canada and the United States as well as with many other symphonies throughout America. She is a teacher for Singnasium and for the CAP 21 program at Molloy College. You can follow Farah on Spotify where you can listen to her albumsOnVinyl(2023) andsomeday(2003) as well as many, many cast recordings from her unique theater career.

JACOB YANDURA is a New York City-based composer. Jacob most recently made his Broadway debut with How to Dance in Ohio, a musical adaptation of the Peabody Award-winning documentary. He is the recipient of the 2024 Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award and was nominated for a 2024 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Broadway Production. His other projects include It Comes with the Building (Berkeley Rep Ground Floor), The Coup (Ars Nova Uncharted), The Last Queen of Canaan, and Wringer (Off-Broadway; New York City Center Stage II). Jacob holds a B.A. in Music Composition from Kenyon College and an M.F.A from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

PAUL CANAAN Broadway: Kinky Boots(dance captain/original Angel), Legally Blonde, Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage Aux Folles, andChitty Chitty Bang Bang, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National Tour: Annie Get Your Gun. He served alongside casting director Bernie Telsey and author Heather Hach as a judge on the MTV reality show“Legally Blonde: The Search for Elle Woods.”He also appears in the films“Sex In The City 2” and“Across the Universe (Director: Julie Taymor).”As a producer, he co-produced the Broadway show How to Dance in Ohio. He also partnered with multi–Tony Award-winning director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell to launch The Original Production, which offers schools and theaters resources to learn and perform original Broadway choreography, available through MTI and TRW. He has also served as Creative Director of Broadway Media Distribution. As a passionate theatre educator, Paul co-founded the nonprofit arts organization Take It From The Top alongside Tony Award nominee Laura Bell Bundy, providing professional mentoring, training, and performance opportunities for aspiring young artists. He also served as Artistic Director of the Broadway Dreams Foundation and as a judge for the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (the Jimmy Awards)