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Duncan Sheik to play at CSPS March 3

12-03-2008 | Music

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Tony Award winner and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik will make his Cedar Rapids debut at CSPS on March 3.

Sheik will perform selections from his hit Broadway musical “Spring Awakening” along with a selection of original songs. Opening for Sheik will be Lauren Pritchard, a member of the original “Spring Awakening” cast who left the show to record a solo album scheduled for release in February.

Tickets for the 8 p.m. show at CSPS, 1103 Third St. SE, are $28 in advance and $32 the day of the show. Check online for details on where to buy tickets.

Sheik won the 2007 Tony Award for best orchestrations and best original score for the provocative rock musical “Spring Awakening”, which began an off-Broadway run in spring 2006. The show moved to Broadway in December 2006 and is scheduled to end its run in January after nearly 900 performances. A touring production arrives at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines January 20-25.

In addition to writing the music for the Broadway play, Sheik has composed original music for the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of “Twelfth Night” and for “The Golden Rooms of Nero,” which debuted at Cornell University and opened at the Magic Theater in San Francisco earlier this year. His self-titled 1996 debut album introduced the hit singles "Barely Breathing" and "She Runs Away," and spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200. Other albums include Humming, Daylight, Phantom Moon, with lyrics by Steven Sater, and his latest, White Limousine, released in 2006.

Film soundtracks Sheik has appeared on include “Great Expectations,” “The Saint,” “Teaching Mrs. Tingle,” “Three to Tango,” “What a Girl Wants,” “Transamerica” and “A Body Goes Down.” More recently he composed and produced the original score for the feature film “A Home at the End of the World,” starring Colin Farrell.