An Afternoon at the Musicals
Presented by Joshua Haines
Event Start Date & TIme: June 20, 2026 12:00
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| Ticket Type | Tickets left | Price | Quantity | Cart |
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| Seated General Entry | 82 | $35.00 | ||
| Seated Student Entry | 10 | $30.00 | ||
| Seated Duke/Duchess | 4 | $0.00 |
Doors 12pm
Show 1pm
Joshua Haines is pleased to present the first instalment for 2026 of The Ellington Jazz Club’s highly popular series ‘An Afternoon at the Musicals’. This dazzling showcase of musical theatre excellence will transport you to the magical world of Broadway and the West End (with a few stories in between) right in the heart of Perth!
An ensemble cast of Perth’s finest musical theatre artists, featuring Libby Hammer, William Groucutt, Cassie Skinner, and musical director and conductor Joshua Haines (plus a special guest), will take you on a journey through your favourite shows, as well as some contemporary masterpieces.
Join us for an afternoon of musical theatre that will leave you humming all the way home!
More about the artists:
Libby Hammer:
Libby Hammer is one of Perth’s premier jazz vocalists, and is regarded as an accomplished jazz singer, bandleader, vocal coach and composer. Libby received her BMus (Jazz) in 1997 from the WA Academy Of Performing Arts and promptly formed a band called Hip Mo’ Toast, who over the next decade would win six WAMI awards for Most Popular Original Jazz Act. She has an immense repertoire and often performs themed shows and workshops, such as her Jazz For Kids series and the ever-popular Bringing Back Bacharach. Libby is a regular presenter with the WA Symphony Orchestra’s Education Chamber Orchestra and has performed many times alongside UK composer and presenter Paul Rissman in his works for children. Libby regularly performs at Fringe World, The Ellington Jazz Club and the Perth International Jazz Festival, and has appeared at the Denmark Festival Of Voice, Jazz By The Bay, The York Festival, and at the 2011 Big Aussie Barbecue (attended by Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh). Libby has performed with WASO, James Morrison, Joe Chindamo and international jazz artists such as Josh Hilberman (USA), Christoph Spendel (Germany) and two-time Grammy Winner Gary Bartz (USA). Libby’s awards include the Perth Jazz Society 2005 Award for Most Outstanding Individual Contribution To Jazz. In 2007 she won another PJS award – Life Membership for Outstanding Long-Term Contribution to Jazz. She was Patron of Jazz Fremantle from 2009 to 2022.
Will Groucutt:
Described as ‘…a performer with an incredible range that reaches the upper stratosphere with ease and finesse’ (Australian Stage Review 2015), William’s most recent credits include originating the role of Mitch in The Crocodile (Tomas Clifford – 2024), and George in She Loves Me (Western Sky Projects/The Liberty Theatre 2024). His previous roles include Tony in West Side Story (WAAPA – 2014), Theo in the first iteration of Atlantis (Matthew Lee Robinson – 2012), as well as Rolf in The Sound of Music (National Tour – 2015). A keen multi-instrumentalist and vocal teacher, William established William Croft Studios in late 2025; an organization which provides pedagogy to music theatre’s next generation concerning refined technique, confident performance, and industry-level training.
Cassie Skinner:
Cassie is an actor, singer and puppeteer, scriptwriter and lyricist who graduated from the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2015. She spent 6 years as a puppeteer and program coordinator for Camp Quality, bringing cancer education and in hospital support to children all over Western Australia. Cassie spent several years singing along the Swan River with Captain Cook Cruises and performing educational musicals for Primary School children with the Royal Agricultural Society. She currently owns her own business as a Personal Trainer and Nutritionist. Cassie has been working and performing in the arts since she was 6 years old, and is trained in classical and contemporary voice, jazz and burlesque, dance, and puppeteering. She worked alongside Grey Lantern Arts, performing and writing contemporary and musical theatre. She performed regularly with Blak Yak and Stray Cats Theatre companies and at the Perth Fringe World festival. Some of her most notable roles to date include, Snow White in Disenchanted, Trude in ATOMIC: A New Rock Musical, Beth in Little Women, Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera, Helen Stewart in Bad Girls, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Joanna in Sweeney Todd, and Casey in First Date the Musical.
Joshua Haines:
Joshua’s most recent credits include performance seasons in Sydney (In These Shoes: Sydney Fringe/Adelaide Fringe/Edinburgh Fringe), Melbourne (Mama Alto: Transcendent, Melbourne Recital Centre/Hayes Theatre Company), and Tasmania (Festival of Voices), as well as being resident musical director for the 2024 Perth International Cabaret Festival and She Loves Me (presented by Western Sky Projects) at Perth’s Liberty Theatre.
As a composer and conductor, his compositions have been performed by both the West Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and his musical theatre works have seen premieres in America (New York City’s SoHo Playhouse 2022) and in the United Kingdom (Cadogan Hall 2019).
Beginning in 2018, Joshua regularly conducts research studies within the Percy Grainger archives located at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on Australian cultural music. His current work in opera includes his engagement as conductor for West Australian Opera’s Koolbardi wer Wardong by Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse; the first opera to be written entirely in the Noongar language, which was quickly followed with his involvement for the same company’s production of Wundig wer Wilura in early 2024, featuring notable artists Jess Hitchcock and Jarred Wall.
Since 2017, Joshua has been working extensively within the musical theatre department at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts as lecturer, coach and teacher to the Diploma and Bachelor students – a position which allows him to pursue his passion for showcasing and promoting new and original works created for the Australian stage.
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