Duncan Sheik, Tony-Winning Spring Awakening Composer, Dies at 56
Duncan Sheik, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter whose score for Spring Awakening helped make the musical a landmark of 21st-century Broadway, died on September 17 in New York City. He was 56. The cause was organ failure, according to published reports. Two Sheik musicals are set to arrive on New York stages this season. His new musical, Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, based on Moyoco Anno’s manga s…