Tributes paid after Duncan Sheik dies, age 56: “This one hurts and does not seem real”

Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening, has died aged 56.

Sheik died of organ failure at a hospital in Manhattan on Thursday night (September 17), which followed his family putting out a statement earlier this week saying the composer was “receiving medical care” and was in “critical but stable condition”.

In a follow-up post shared on Friday (September 18), his family wrote: “The world has lost a singular talent, and dee...