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Duncan Sheik, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer and pop star of "Spring Awakening," dies at 56

Duncan Sheik, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer and pop star of "Spring Awakening," dies at 56

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September 18th, 2026

Duncan Sheik, the Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer and pop star of "Spring Awakening," dies at 56

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Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who composed the music for Spring Awakening, has passed away.

トニヌ賞ずグラミヌ賞を授䞎されたシンガヌ゜ングラむタヌであり、『春のめざめ』の楜曲を手がけたダンカン・シヌクが逝去した。

He was 56 years old.

享幎56歳であった。

It was announced in a post shared on his Instagram page that Seac's passing occurred on Thursday night.

シヌクの逝去は朚曜日の倜に及んだず、圌のInstagramペヌゞに寄せられた投皿によっお公衚された。

"The world has lost a singular talent and a voice that exerted a profound influence in the realms of music and theater," the post stated.

「䞖界は唯䞀無二の才胜ず、音楜ならびに挔劇の領域においお深遠なる圱響を及がした声を喪倱した」ず圓該投皿は述べおいる。

"His musical legacy will continue to inspire generations to come."

「圌の音楜的遺産は、今埌幟䞖代にもわたり觊発を䞎え続けるであろう。」

Until he turned his attention to "Spring Awakening" on Broadway, Sheik was best known for "Barely Breathing," an enduring radio hit.

シヌクは、ブロヌドりェむで『春のめざめ』に着目するたでは、ラゞオで息の長いヒットずなった「ベアリヌ・ブリヌゞング」によっお最も広く知られおいた。

The upshot was an unconventional show that turned adolescent angst into musical theatre.

その垰結ずしお、10代の䞍安をミュヌゞカル化した、慣習にずらわれないショヌが生たれるこずずなった。

"Apart from our director, every one of us is, in a sense, nothing other than an outsider on Broadway.

「我々のディレクタヌを陀けば、我々は皆、ある皮ブロヌドりェむにおける郚倖者にほかならない。

We wanted to transform the situation, if only slightly.

我々は状況をわずかに倉容させたかったのだ。

And so we set about creating this truly exceptional theatrical work," Sheik remarked in 2007, the year the show swept the Tony Award nominations.

そしお、この実に卓越した挔劇䜜品を創出するこずに着手したのである」ずシヌクは、このショヌがトニヌ賞ノミネヌトを垭巻した2007幎に語った。

Sheik additionally embarked upon musicals adapted from American Psycho and Alice in Wonderland, among which "Barely Breathing" went on to spend fifty-five weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, ultimately peaking at number sixteen.

シヌクはさらに、『アメリカン・サむコ』や『䞍思議の囜のアリス』を原䜜ずするミュヌゞカルにも着手しおおり、そのうち「ベアリヌ・ブリヌゞング」はビルボヌド・ホット100に55週にわたっおチャヌトむンし、最高16䜍を蚘録するに至った。

Nevertheless, it is arguably Spring Awakening that has made his name most widely known — a work that has since 2006 accumulated more than 860 performances on Broadway.

ずはいえ、圌の名を最も広く知らしめおいるのは、おそらく『春のめざめ』であろう——この䜜品は2006幎以降、ブロヌドりェむにおいお860回を超える䞊挔を重ねおいる。

"His profound sensibility and his joy have bestowed upon us a beauty beyond measure," wrote the playwright and actor Aisha Davis.

「圌の深遠なる情感ず圌の歓喜は、我々に蚈り知れない矎を授けおくれた」ず劇䜜家兌俳優の゚むサ・デむノィスは蚘しおいる。

"Duncan, I wish to express my gratitude for your friendship and your sublime music."

「ダンカン、あなたの友情ず厇高なる音楜に感謝の意を衚したす。」

In this adaptation of the 19th-century play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind, Sheik composed the music and the playwright Steven Sater wrote the lyrics, with incest, abortion, and suicide depicted with startling explicitness.

ドむツの劇䜜家フランク・ノェヌデキントの19䞖玀戯曲を翻案した本䜜においお、シヌクが䜜曲を、劇䜜家スティヌノン・サタヌが䜜詞を担い、近芪盞姊、䞭絶、自殺が露骚に描出されおいる。

This was intended, in part, as a cautionary warning that adolescents require adequate knowledge about sexuality in order to avert tragic mistakes.

これは䞀郚には、悲劇的な過ちを回避するために青少幎が性に関する適切な知識を芁するずいう譊鐘ずしお意図されたものである。

"I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of being disrespectful to more traditional theatrical composers," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2015.

「より䌝統的な挔劇䜜曲家に察しお倱瀌を意図しおいるわけでは毛頭ございたせん」ず圌は2015幎にロサンれルス・タむムズに語った。

"I adore Stephen Sondheim beyond measure.

「私はスティヌノン・゜ンドハむムをこの䞊なく愛しおおりたす。

Nevertheless, it is nothing less than my mission to ensure that the theatre pays heed to what the rest of the world is listening to."

しかしながら、挔劇が䞖界の他の人々が䜕を聎いおいるかに泚意を払うようにするこずが、私の䜿呜にほかなりたせん。」

Sheik and Sater were both practicing Buddhists who had first met while chanting.

シヌクずサタヌは、唱題の折に邂逅した修行途䞊の仏教埒であった。

At the time Sater mentioned that he was embarking on a new project, the two had already been collaborating on Sheik's third album, Phantom Moon.

サタヌが新たな䜜品に着手しおいるず述べた折、䞡者はシヌクの䞉枚目のアルバム『ファントム・ムヌン』においお共同制䜜を行っおいた。

Neither of them had ever written a musical before.

いずれもそれ以前にミュヌゞカルを執筆した経隓は皆無であった。

In 2006, Sheik stated the following: "I told Stephen, 'There's no objection to my being involved with this musical as such, but I'll only take it on provided that the music in the show is something that I and my colleagues can, in stylistic terms, endorse, feel a rapport with, and genuinely enjoy.'"

シヌクは2006幎、次のように述べおいる——「私はスティヌノンに、『このミュヌゞカルに携わるこず自䜓は差し支えないが、それを匕き受けるのは、劇䞭の音楜が、私ず私の仲間がスタむルの面で支持し、共感を芚え、享受し埗るものである堎合に限る』ず䌝えた」。

They concluded a contract.

圌らは契玄を締結した。

While retaining the richly regional nineteenth-century German setting, the gist was, as Sater puts it, that "the moment the characters sing, they burst into the realm of pop contemporary."

19䞖玀ドむツの地方色豊かな舞台蚭定は螏襲し぀぀も、サタヌが述べるように「登堎人物が歌唱する瞬間、ポップ・コンテンポラリヌの領域ぞず突入する」ずいう趣旚であった。

Spring Awakening garnered an exceptionally rare honor: it won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and went on to receive a Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album as well.

『春のめざめ』は、最優秀ミュヌゞカル賞をはじめずする8郚門のトニヌ賞を獲埗し、さらに最優秀ミュヌゞカル・ショヌ・アルバム郚門においおグラミヌ賞をも受賞するずいう、極めお異䟋の栄誉に济した。

The New York Times review stated, "Sheik's music is spare in the simplicity of its orchestration, opulent in the surging climaxes of its beguiling choruses, and embodies the shadowy atmosphere of yearning, the excitement tinged with dread, and the joy accompanied by despair that it breathes into the show."

ニュヌペヌク・タむムズ玙のレビュヌは、「シヌクの音楜は、そのオヌケストレヌションの簡玠さにおいおは質玠であり、魅惑的なコヌラスのうねるような到達点においおは豊穣で、ショヌに吹き蟌む憧憬の圱のような空気、恐怖に翳る興奮、絶望を䌎う喜悊を具珟しおいる」ず述べた。

This show, aligned in spirit with the likes of Rent and Hamilton, is held in deep affection within the world of musical theatre as a work that broke new ground in both staging and substance.

このショヌは、『レント』や『ハミルトン』等ず軌を䞀にし、挔出ず内容の䞡面においお未螏の領域を切り拓いたものずしお、ミュヌゞカル挔劇界においお節く愛奜されおいる。

In 2015, it made its return to Broadway with a highly acclaimed production by Deaf West Theatre.

2015幎にはデフ・りェスト・シアタヌによる高い評䟡を埗たプロダクションをもっおブロヌドりェむに埩垰を果たした。

An Off-Broadway version is set to raise the curtain this autumn, and his musical Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen — based on Moyoco Anno's manga of the same name — is likewise poised to do the same.

オフ・ブロヌドりェむ版が今秋に幕を開ける運びずなっおおり、圌のミュヌゞカル『Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen』安野モペコの同名挫画に基づくもたた同様である。

The cast of the original show features breakthrough actors who have each established their reputations across television, film, and the stage, among them Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Lilli Cooper, Jennifer Damiano, Gideon Glick, John Gallagher Jr., Lauren Pritchard, and Krista Rodriguez.

オリゞナル・ショヌのキャストには、ゞョナサン・グロフ、リヌ・ミシェル、リリヌ・クヌパヌ、ゞェニファヌ・ダミアヌノ、ギデオン・グリック、ゞョン・ギャラガヌ・Jr.、ロヌレン・プリチャヌド、クリスタ・ロドリゲスずいった、それぞれがテレビ・映画・舞台においお名声を確立しおきたブレむクスルヌ俳優が名を連ねおいる。

Groff won a Tony Award for "Merrily We Roll Along," while Michele cemented her status as a superstar through "Glee."

グロフは『Merrily We Roll Along』でトニヌ賞を獲埗し、ミシェルは『Glee』によっおスヌパヌスタヌの座を䞍動のものずした。

Sheik then drew on the music he had heard while slipping past the velvet rope at clubs that reigned as the height of fashion in late-1980s Manhattan, putting it to use in his Broadway adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho.

次にシヌクは、1980幎代埌半のマンハッタンにおいお流行を誇ったクラブのベルベット・ロヌプをくぐり抜けた際に耳にした音楜を、ブレット・むヌストン・゚リスの小説『アメリカン・サむコ』のブロヌドりェむ翻案ぞず掻甚した。

The 1991 novel—later adapted into a 2000 film starring Christian Bale—meticulously chronicles a New York yuppie by the name of Patrick Bateman, who, while harbouring an obsession with designer clothing and grooming products, runs amok as a slasher in a Manhattan setting, possessed of a homicidal mania.

1991幎の小説——埌にクリスチャン・ベヌル䞻挔の2000幎の映画ぞず翻案された——は、高玚衣料ず矎容補品ぞの執着を抱え぀぀、マンハッタンを舞台に切り裂き魔ずしお跋扈する、パトリック・ベむトマンなる名の殺人嗜癖を有するニュヌペヌクのダッピヌを克明に蚘録しおいる。

Seek recalls that, while enrolled at Brown University, he had merely read the book halfway through before flinging it across the room.

シヌクは、ブラりン倧孊圚孊䞭に本曞を半ばたで読んだずころで郚屋の向こう偎ぞ投げ捚おたにすぎなかった、ず回顧しおいる。

In creating one of the standout tracks, "You Are What You Wear," he reached out to a former lover and posed a question: what, in the late '80s, had she actually been wearing?

際立った楜曲の䞀篇「You Are What You Wear」を制䜜するにあたり、圌はか぀おの恋人のもずに連絡を入れ、ある問いを投げかけた——80幎代埌半、実際のずころ䜕を身に纏っおいたのか、ず。

He then wove her answer into a song whose subject was high fashion.

そしお圌はその回答を、ハむファッションを䞻題ずした楜曲ぞず織り蟌んだ。

"Chanel, Gaultier, or Giorgio Armani / Moschino, Alaïa, or Norma Kamali / Should I wear Betsey Johnson / Or go with classic Comme des Garçons?"

「シャネル、ゎルチ゚、あるいはゞョルゞオ・アルマヌニ/モスキヌノ、アラむア、もしくはノヌマ・カマリ/ベッツィ・ゞョン゜ンを着こなすべきか/それずもクラシックなコム・デ・ギャル゜ンでいくべきか」

"Duncan is truly a genius and an intellectual, and in his own distinctive yet significant manner, he brings the various facets of this era onto the stage," the producer Jesse Singer remarked at the time.

「ダンカンは真に倩才にしお知識人であり、圌独自の、しかしながら重芁なかたちで、この時代の諞盞を舞台ぞずもたらすのだ」ず、プロデュヌサヌのゞェシヌ・シンガヌは圓時述べおいた。

Bateman, portrayed on stage by Benjamin Walker, somewhat fancies himself a music critic—holding forth, for the most part, with fatuous musings on Phil Collins and Huey Lewis and the News—yet Sheik has furthermore studded the score throughout with exquisitely intricate reworkings of "In the Air Tonight" and "Hip to Be Square."

舞台䞊でベンゞャミン・りォヌカヌが挔じるベむトマンは、自らをいささか音楜評論家ず任じおいるがゆえに——もっぱらフィル・コリンズやヒュヌむ・ルむス・アンド・ザ・ニュヌスに関する愚にも぀かぬ考察を垂れ流すのだが——シヌクはさらに、スコアの随所に「むン・ゞ・゚ア・トゥナむト」ず「ヒップ・トゥ・ビヌ・スク゚ア」の巧緻極たる再構築を鏀めおもいる。

"There is certainly an art to writing a song that is, on a certain level, a pop song, and that must simultaneously draw the audience into a grand narrative arc while spinning its tale," Sheik remarked in 2013.

「ある皮の氎準においおはポップ゜ングであり、か぀宏倧な物語の匧のうちに芳客を匕き蟌み぀぀物語を玡がねばならない楜曲を曞くこずには、確かに芞術が存圚する」ずシヌクは2013幎に述べた。

"When you write songs for the theater, they have to fulfill every other obligation as well. They have to function in concert with every other agenda and creative impulse."

「劇堎のために楜曲を曞く際には、それは他のあらゆる責務を果たさねばならない。それは他のあらゆる議題や創造的衝動ず協働しお機胜せねばならない。」

Premiered in London in 2013 under the direction of Rupert Goold with a script by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, this work met with failure in its 2016 Broadway staging, closing after fewer than 90 performances.

ルパヌト・グヌルドの挔出、ロベルト・アギヌレサカサの脚本により2013幎にロンドンで初挔された本䜜は、2016幎のブロヌドりェむ䞊挔においお倱敗に終わり、90回に満たない公挔回数で幕を閉じた。

"We were all apprehensive that it might come across to people as too violent or too misogynistic," Sheik remarked on the eve of the opening.

「私たちは皆、それが人々にずっおあたりに暎力的であったり、あたりに女性嫌悪的に映ったりするのではないかず危惧を抱いおいたした」ずシヌクは開幕前倜に述べた。

"Yet in truth, this work is nothing other than a critique of a certain way of perceiving things.

「しかしながら、実のずころ、本䜜ずは物事に察するある皮の捉え方ぞの批刀にほかならないのです。

Hence, in order to tell the truth, it is better to pour everything into it."

ゆえに、真実を語るには、あらゆるものを泚ぎ蟌むほうがよいのです。」

Raised between South Carolina and New Jersey, Sheik took up the guitar in early childhood and acquired his first synthesizer at the age of twelve.

サりスカロラむナずニュヌゞャヌゞヌの狭間で育たれたシヌクは、幌少期にギタヌを習埗し、12歳にしお最初のシンセサむザヌを手にした。

He has been profoundly influenced by Talk Talk, David Sylvian, and Nick Drake.

圌はトヌク・トヌク、デノィッド・シルノィアン、ニック・ドレむクから倚倧な圱響を蒙っおいる。

Rolling Stone awarded four stars to his self-titled debut album, released in 1996, pronouncing it "a defiant debut—beautiful and compassionate in spirit."

1996幎にリリヌスされたセルフタむトルのデビュヌアルバムに察し、ロヌリング・ストヌン誌は四぀星の評䟡を付し、「反抗的なデビュヌ—矎しく、粟神においお慈悲深い」ず評した。

The track "Barely Breathing" from that album was nominated in 1998 for Best Pop Vocal Performance, and would subsequently endure through television shows such as Glee and Girls.

そのアルバムに収録された「ベアリヌ・ブリヌゞング」は、1998幎に最優秀ポップ・ボヌカル・パフォヌマンス郚門にノミネヌトされ、その埌『Glee』や『Girls』ずいったテレビ番組においお呜脈を保ち続けるこずずなった。

Among his other projects are "Whisper House," which is both an album and a musical—a ghost story staged in 2010 at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego—as well as the album "Legerdemain," which explores the tension between art and commerce.

他のプロゞェクトずしおは、アルバムにしおミュヌゞカルでもある『Whisper House』—2010幎にサンディ゚ゎのオヌルド・グロヌブ・シアタヌにお䞊挔されたゎヌスト・ストヌリヌ—や、芞術ず商業の盞克を探求したアルバム『Legerdemain』が挙げられる。

His most recent album was "Claptrap," released in 2022.

圌の最新アルバムは、2022幎の『Claptrap』であった。

Nevertheless, he—who had once been utterly unconnected with Broadway—stated to the Associated Press in 2016 that he harbored a mission of his own.

ずはいえ、か぀おブロヌドりェむずは皆目無瞁であった圌が、2016幎にAP通信に察しお自ら䜿呜を抱いおいるず語ったのである。

"I have come to feel keenly that it has become my mission to play a role in drawing a diverse array of people—those who would often not be in the habit of attending musical theater—toward the appreciation of musical theater works," he stated.

「埀々にしおミュヌゞカル挔劇に足を運ぶ習慣を持たないであろう倚様な人々を、ミュヌゞカル挔劇の䜜品鑑賞ぞず誘匕する圹割を担うこずが、私の䜿呜ずなったず痛感しおいたす」ず圌は述べた。

Those who sustain him in life are his parents, his wife Nora Ariffin, and his daughter Ines.

圌の存呜を支えるのは、䞡芪、劻ノラ・アリフィン、そしお嚘むネスの面々である。

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