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She also was in the original Broadway casts of "In the Heights, " ''Spring Awakening" and "Good Vibrations.
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The allegoric musical includes folk-tinged original music by Tony Award-winner Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening"), with thoughtful lyrics by W. H.
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Though it didn't win the Tony Award for best musical the edgy "Spring Awakening" did "Mary Poppins" has outlasted the combined runs of its three Tony rivals that year.
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"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" was conceived as a play with music, and Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who composed the score for "Spring Awakening, " has written new settings of W.H.
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The project has given Sheik, who had the 1996 smash-hit single "Barely Breathing" and is the songwriter of the Tony-winning musical "Spring Awakening, " a chance to delve into '80s electronic music.
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He also provides us with a yardstick for measuring the chances that the Arab awakening this spring will meet his three tests of political order (not high, at least not yet).
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But the spectacle of Israel's ambassador being plucked from the jaws of the Arab spring to the safety of Jerusalem was a signal of what the Arab democratic awakening might mean for the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, Jimmy Carter's proudest achievement and the foundation on which America's Arab-Israeli diplomacy has stood for more than 30 years.
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Finally, there is the potential for a Sunni-style Awakening among the Afghan Pashtun, the ethnic group from which the Taliban generally spring.
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