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Gavin Creel, who won a Tony Award for his Broadway show successful Hello Dolly!, died Sept. 30 astatine property 48 aft a little conflict with cancer.
By Will Reid Sep 30, 2024 6:49 PMTags
In Memoriam: Fallen Stars of 2024
The Broadway assemblage is mourning the nonaccomplishment of a agleam star, Gavin Creel.
The Tony victor died Sept. 30 astatine his Manhattan location pursuing a conflict with metastatic melanotic peripheral nervus sheath sarcoma, a uncommon and assertive signifier of cancer, which helium was diagnosed with successful July, according to The New York Times. He was 48.
Per the outlet, Creel’s passing was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward.
A theatre seasoned with a vocation spanning implicit 20 years, Creel won a Tony Award successful 2017 for Best Featured Actor In a Musical for his crook arsenic Cornelius Hackl successful Hello Dolly!. He besides earned Tony nominations for his performances successful the archetypal 2002 accumulation of Thoroughly Modern Millie—his Broadway debut—and the 2009 revival of Hair.
In 2023, Creel besides debuted his ain off-Broadway musical, Walk connected Through: Confessions of a Museum Novice, which featured 17 archetypal songs. His different signifier credits see She Loves Me, Waitress, Into the Woods and The Book of Mormon.
News of the performer’s passing sent shockwaves passim the theatre community, with tributes pouring successful connected societal media. In an Instagram post, Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote that helium was “shattered” by the loss.
“Gavin Creel was our archetypal King erstwhile each we had was 11 songs,” helium said of the performer, who sang King George’s “You’ll Be Back” successful Hamilton. “He wrapped the assemblage astir his digit with thing but a Burger King crown and his mind-blowing charisma and talent.”
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“He is truthful loved and it is unimaginable that he’s nary longer with us,” Miranda continued. “My bosom goes retired to each the friends and household and collaborators fortunate capable to beryllium successful his orbit. We emotion you and we’ll ever emotion you Gavin.”
The Book of Mormon‘s Josh Gad besides honored the precocious actor connected societal media, writing, “Sometimes, I don’t person the close words to picture my sadness. Today is 1 of those days.”
“We person mislaid idiosyncratic acold excessively young, acold excessively aboriginal inactive successful his travel and acold excessively impactful to our originative community,” helium added. “My bosom breaks for his household and his closest friends. This is conscionable not fair. We volition ne'er hide you @realgavincreel.”
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