{"id":884,"date":"2008-12-31T13:25:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthologysd.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2008-12-31T13:27:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T20:27:52","slug":"grammy-nominated-singer%e2%80%93songwriter-duncan-sheik-to-perform-at-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/2008\/12\/31\/grammy-nominated-singer%e2%80%93songwriter-duncan-sheik-to-perform-at-anthology\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammy nominated singer\u2013songwriter Duncan Sheik to perform at Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthologysd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/duncansheik.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Duncan Sheik\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-885\" \/>In addition to writing the music for the Broadway musical hit <em>Spring Awakening<\/em>, Grammy nominated singer\u2013songwriter <strong>Duncan Sheik<\/strong> is collaborating with Playwright <strong>Steven Sater<\/strong> on <em>The Nightingale<\/em>, a musical based on the <strong>Hans Christian Andersen<\/strong> classic which premiered during the 26th annual O&#8217;Neill Music Theater Conference.  Sheik has composed original music for the Public Theatre&#8217;s Shakespeare in the Park production of <em>Twelfth Night<\/em> and for <em>The Golden Rooms of Nero<\/em>, which opened at the Magic Theater in San Francisco earlier this year. His self-titled debut album on Atlantic Records, was an enormous popular and critical success and spent 30 weeks on the Billboard 200. Other albums include <em>Humming, Daylight, Phantom Moon<\/em> (Nonesuch Records) with lyrics by Steven Sater and his latest, <em>White Limousine<\/em> (Rounder Records), Duncan\u2019s songs have appeared in many Film Soundtracks including <em>Great Expectations<\/em>, <em>The Saint<\/em>, <em>Teaching Mrs. Tingle<\/em>, <em>Three to Tango<\/em>, <em>What a Girl Wants<\/em>, <em>Transamerica<\/em> and <em>Amazing Grace<\/em> (a documentary about the late Jeff Buckley). Sheik also composed and produced the original score for the feature film <em>A Home at the End of the World<\/em>, directed by <strong>Michael Maye<\/strong>r and starring <strong>Colin Farrell<\/strong> and recently finished scoring <strong>Mary Stuart Masterson<\/strong>&#8216;s directorial debut, <em>The Cake Eaters<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Duncan Sheik performs at Anthology with original <em>&#8220;Spring Awakening&#8221;<\/em> leading cast member Lauren Pritchard on February 18, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthologysd.com\/pages\/tickets.html?date=2009\/02\/18&#038;showname=Duncan%20Shiek%20with%20original%20Spring%20Awakening%20leading%20cast%20member%20Lauren%20Pritchard&#038;Show=1&#038;time=7:30%20PM\" title=\"Buy tickets for Duncan Sheik @ Anthology\" target=\"_blank\">Buy Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to writing the music for the Broadway musical hit Spring Awakening, Grammy nominated singer\u2013songwriter Duncan Sheik is collaborating with Playwright Steven Sater on The Nightingale, a musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen classic which premiered during the 26th annual O&#8217;Neill Music Theater Conference. Sheik has composed original music for the Public Theatre&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[241,32,240,88,242,244,1517,243],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-past-shows","category-special-events","tag-broadway-musical","tag-concert","tag-duncan-sheik","tag-grammy-nominated","tag-hans-christian-andersen","tag-lauren-pritchard","tag-live-music","tag-spring-awakening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}