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DUNCAN SHEIK
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Duncan Shiek's Theatre credits include; Spring Awakening (2007 Tony Awards for "Best Orchestrations" and "Best Original Score", 2008 Grammy Award for "Best Musical Show Album"), Whisper House, American Psycho (currently in development), Nero (Another Golden Rome) (currently in development), the Nightingale.
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Alice By Heart American Psycho Mrs Jones and the Man from Dixieland Umbrage Whisper HouseAlice By Heart
How do we leave childhood behind? How do we close the book when the world around us has gone mad with arbitrary rules? In the throes of adolescence, determined Alice Parsley convinces her seriously ailing friend Alfred to follow her one last time "Down the Hole" and play White Rabbit to her childhood heroine. Mad as it all is, there's so much she still wants from him. And yet, how late it's getting!
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written by Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik
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Organisations:
National Theatre Connections
1st Published:
in National Theatre Connections 2012, Methuen Drama (15 Mar 2012)
Published in an extended version for the Market theatre, Johannesburg, by Oberon Books 978-1408157244
Published in an extended version for the Market theatre, Johannesburg, by Oberon Books 978-1408157244
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Genre:
rock musical
Parts:
Male: - Female: - Other: 12 plus chorus
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Synopsis:
There is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis. Living the high life in 1980s Manhattan, Patrick Bateman has it all looks, money, style and status. He and his entourage buy the most expensive designer clothes, eat at the most exclusive restaurants and party at the hottest clubs. But privately, Patrick indulges in another kind of transgression. And people - including those closest to him - keep disappearing.
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Book by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; music and lyrics by Duncan Sheik, from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis
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Organisations:
co-production with Headlong in association with Act 4 Entertainment by special arrangement with Edward R. Pressman
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Genre:
musical thriller
Parts:
Male: 8 Female: 7 Other: -
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Top of PageMrs Jones and the Man from Dixieland
Synopsis:
A blind sharecropper's daughter is rocking her infant when a young man in a blue serge suit comes calling with a carpet. the play features a new song by Tony and Grammy Award-winning composers Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, who have collaborated for over a decade.
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Ensemble Studio theatre's flagship festival of new one-act plays, the Marathon has played Annually At EST for over 30 years. 2011, marking the 33rd year of the Marathon, features All EST member playwrights.
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Genre:
One Act
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Male: 1 Female: 1 Other: -
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Top of PageUmbrage
Synopsis:
A singer-songwriter is hustling to get by is taken in by a middle aged Latino factory worker
Notes:
Written by Steven Sater And Duncan Sheik
1st Produced:
Powerhouse Theater, New York 2010
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageWhisper House
1942. Christopher's father dies whilst fighting in the War. Christopher is sent to live with his aunt on a remote lighthouse. Christopher discovers it is haunted.
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Music And lyrics by Duncan Sheik; book by Kyle Jarrow
1st Produced:
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego 13 Jan 2010
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Original cast recording: RCA Victor 2009
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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