Spring Awakening's Duncan Sheik to Go Psycho with New Musical

Tony Award-winning singer/songwriter Duncan Sheik, already touring with concert performances of his new musical Whisper House, may have another dark tuner in the works. The Spring Awakening mastermind has been tapped to pen music and lyrics for the musical adaptation of twisted novel and film American Psycho, according to Variety. Scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is also attached to the project as bookwriter.

American Psycho became a cult phenomenon in 1991, when the violent Bret Easton Ellis book about a deranged Wall Street banker with an affinity for '80s pop music, sex and killing people first hit shelves. The novel was adapted into a film in 2000, starring Christian Bale as titular killer Patrick Bateman and co-starring Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas and Justin Theroux.

Sheik originally found success as a solo artist with the Billboard hit "Barely Breathing." His Broadway debut with Spring Awakening earned him two Tony Awards. His new musical Whisper House, featuring a book and additional lyrics by Kyle Jarrow, is currently running at San Diego's Old Globe Theater in a production starring Mare Winningham.

Bookwriter Aguirre-Sacasa's plays include Based on a Totally True Story, Good Boys and True and Dark Matters. He is currently a staff writer for the hit HBO series Big Love.

American Psycho will be the maiden stage voyage for the Johnson-Roessler Company, formed by former MGM senior executive David Johnson and MGM TV exec Craig Roessler, who will produce alongside Jesse Singer, Aaron Ray and Nate Bolotin, with Ellis and Edward R. Pressman as consulting producers. No additional details on the no-doubt bloody tuner have been released, though Variety reports the new musical have an '80s music vibe in keeping with its source material.