Sold out | Tony Award winner and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik will perform selections from his hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening, along with a selection of his captivating original material, when he makes his Cedar Rapids debut Tuesday, March 3.

Opening for Sheik will be Lauren Pritchard, a member of the original Spring Awakening Broadway cast. Appearing as Ilse for two years, she left the show to record a solo album with Sony BMG records. Pritchard's album is scheduled for release in February 2009.

Duncan Sheik won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and Best Original Score for the provocative rock musical Spring Awakening, which began its off-Broadway run in spring 2006, then moved to Broadway in December 2006. Adapted from the 1891 Frank Wedekind play of the same name, Spring Awakening combined a youthful cast with a pop score written by Sheik and Steven Sater, and choreography by Bill T. Jones, to yield a 21st century hit. Altogether the show won eight Tony awards, including best musical, best original score, best choreography and best direction of a musical. The original cast recording also won a Grammy Award.

Spring Awakening is scheduled to close on Broadway January 18, 2009, following 29 previews and 859 performances. A touring production arrives at the Civic Center of Greater Des Moines January 20-25. (The Civic Center's Web site includes a video interview with Duncan Sheik.)

Duncan Sheik's 1996 debut, which was an enormous popular and critical success, 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.

In addition to writing the music for Spring Awakening, he has composed 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.

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.

Sheik's CSPS performance is also likely to feature at least a few songs from Whisper House, a new musical he's currently developing with Keith Powell (Toofer on NBC's 30 Rock). The CD recording of Whisper House is scheduled to be released January 27, 2009.

At the same time Sheik is working with his Spring Awakening collaborator, Stephen Sater, on a musical adaptation of The Nightingale, based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. Nightingale is scheduled to open in September 2009 at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.