Duncan Sheik Tours “…Bleecker Street To Broadway”

DUNCAN SHEIK CONFIRMS FALL U.S. TOUR PERFORMING “SONGS FROM NEW YORK CITY FROM BLEEKER STREET TO BROADWAY”

TRACKS FROM SHEIK’S FORTHCOMING ALBUM LEGERDEMAIN AVAILABLE NOW FOR FREE DOWNLOAD

Grammy and Tony award-winning musician Duncan Sheik is heading out on a full U.S. tour this fall performing selections from his diverse back catalogue which surround the theme “Songs From New York City From Bleeker Street To Broadway.” Please see the full list of tour dates below. Tickets for select shows are available now.

The tour celebrates Sheik’s forthcoming album Legerdemain, set for release this fall. Two tracks from the record, “Circling” and “Photograph,” are available now for free download at duncansheik.com. NPR Music said, “The songs from the new album, Legerdemain, feel full-circle; intimate and contemplative. Telling complicated little stories via spare lyrics and subtle studio wizardry, these songs beautifully balance Sheik’s pop know-how and his theatrical impulses.” Recorded at Sheik’s very own Sneaky Studios in Garrison, New York, this album marks his first production of original material, not attached to a theatre production, since 2006’s White Limousine.

In addition to his new album, Sheik’s critically acclaimed musical adaption of Bret Easton Ellis’ American Psycho will premiere on Broadway in 2016. The musical debuted at the Almeida Theatre in London in December to a sold out, five week run. Furthermore, Sheik was recently named the Artist in Residence at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, where he serves as artistic advisor for the Institute’s Stagecraft and the Art of Performance class as well as its Studio Performance Workshop.

Launching his musical career in 1996 with his self-titled debut, Sheik quickly earned a Grammy nomination for  “Best Male Vocal” for his hit “Barely Breathing,” which spent 55 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. He subsequently garnered critical accolades for his unique brand of folk-pop music with 2006’s White Limousine and his 2-CD collection of songs titled Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology.

Also of significant note, Sheik composed the original score and collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater for 2007’s Spring Awakening, which went on to win eight Tony awards. Sheik alone earned two awards for “Best Orchestration” and “Best Original Score” as well as a Grammy award for “Best Musical Show Album,” which he produced. He followed with the musical theater production Whisper House, which was directed by Peter Askin (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and written by Kyle Jarrow, and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Nightingale.

DUNCAN SHEIK TOUR DATES

*co-headlining with Suzanne Vega

November 5 & 6                                         Berkeley, CA                                    Freight & Salvage*

November 7                                             Beverly Hills, CA                                       Saban Theater*

November 8                                       San Juan Capistrano, CA                           The Coach House*

November 13                                               Evanston, IL                                      Evanston SPACE*

November 14                                             Brookfield, WI       Sharon Lynne Wilson Ctr. For Arts*

November 15                                           Minneapolis, MN                                             The Cedar*

November 18 & 19                                      Vienna, VA                             The Barns at Wolf Trap*

November 20                                             Richmond, VA                      Modlin Center for the Arts*

November 21                                             New York, NY                             Zankel at Carnegie Hall

November 22                                             Tarrytown, NY                      The Tarrytown Music Hall*