Tony winner Gavin Creel has succumbed to cancer. He was only 48 years old. Theater colleagues like Bette Midler are dismayed.
Gavin Creel (1976-2024), a Tony-winning Broadway star whose credits included “Hair,” “Hello, Dolly” and “Into the Woods,” died Monday (September 30) at his home in Manhattan as a result of an aggressive cancer – “a metastatic malignant peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma”. He was 48 years old.
As “Variety” further reports, Creel won his first Tony Award in 2017 as best leading actor in a musical for the role of Cornelius Hackl in the Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly” with Bette Midler (78). He was previously nominated for “Hair” in 2009 and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2002. He also won a 2023 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s (1930-2021) “Into the Woods.” Creel made his television debut in 2003’s “Eloise at the Plaza” and has also appeared in “American Horror Stories” and more.
Bette Midler and more mourn
Following the shocking news, Gavin Creel received an outpouring of messages of love and heartbreaking tributes. His “Hello, Dolly!” co-star Bette Midler led the condolences and said: “The radiant actor Gavin Creel, beloved by the Broadway community, has died of a rare form of cancer.” She added: “He played Cornelius Hackl to my Dolly in ‘Hello Dolly’ and I looked forward to working with him every night. He was fantastic. I can’t believe he’s gone. What a loss .”
Midler was followed by stars like Hannah Waddingham (50, “Ted Lasso”), Idina Menzel (53, “Frozen”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (44, “Hamilton”), Bernadette Peters (76, “Annie”) and many others Stage and film greats.
Gavin Creel is survived by his partner Alex Temple Ward, his two sisters Allyson and Heather and his parents.
Source: Stern
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