Sep 22, 2026 · 58 min · 12 segments
Today on PCQ - we run through the rest of 2026 Box Office, what to look forward to, what we're looking forward to most, your headlines, and more!
Now, before we look into headlines, a couple of really sad deaths in the world of music.
Dude, Duncan Sheik died.
He was only 56 years old.
He was a pop singer-songwriter, had this huge hit with Barely Breathing.
Couldn't really replicate that success, so he pivoted into the world of theater, Broadway-
... musicals.
He won both a Tony and a Grammy for composing the music to Spring Awakening, which came out in 2006 and catapulted Lea Michele, Skylar Astin, and Jonathan Groff to a new-
... level of fame.
On his social media, Skylar Astin said, "You were who we aspire to be.
We carried your voice and your music as best we could." Because Lea Michele, she started auditioning for that role in Spring Awakening when she was 14.
And I think she probably got the role maybe when she was 15, started when she was 15.
Um, Duncan Sheik, 56 years old, died of heart failure.
Yeah, I, it's, I don't, I'm really having a hard time with my own, uh, aliveness recently just because-
Hmm
There are so many stories out there of p- people dying so young of cancer and heart failure and all of these things, and it has me freaked out.
Now, before we look into headlines, a couple of really sad deaths in the world of music.
Dude, Duncan Sheik died.
He was only 56 years old.
He was a pop singer-songwriter, had this huge hit with Barely Breathing.
Couldn't really replicate that success, so he pivoted into the world of theater, Broadway-
... musicals.
He won both a Tony and a Grammy for composing the music to Spring Awakening, which came out in 2006 and catapulted Lea Michele, Skylar Astin, and Jonathan Groff to a new-
... level of fame.
On his social media, Skylar Astin said, "You were who we aspire to be.
We carried your voice and your music as best we could." Because Lea Michele, she started auditioning for that role in Spring Awakening when she was 14.
And I think she probably got the role maybe when she was 15, started when she was 15.
Um, Duncan Sheik, 56 years old, died of heart failure.
Yeah, I, it's, I don't, I'm really having a hard time with my own, uh, aliveness recently just because-
Hmm
There are so many stories out there of p- people dying so young of cancer and heart failure and all of these things, and it has me freaked out.
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