Tony winner Gavin Creel has died of cancer. He was only 48 years old. Theater colleagues like Bette Midler are dismayed.
Gavin Creel (1976-2024), a Tony Award-winning Broadway star whose credits included “Hair,” “Hello, Dolly” and “Into the Woods,” died Monday, September 30, at his home in Manhattan. an aggressive cancer – “a metastatic malignant sarcoma of the peripheral nerve sheaths”, as its spokesperson confirmed to the “New York Times”. He was 48 years old.
As “Variety” reports, Creel won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2017 for the role of Cornelius Hackl in the Broadway revival of “Hello, Dolly” with 78-year-old Bette Midler. Before that, he was in 2009’s “Hair” and was nominated for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2002. He also won a 2023 Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album for the Broadway revival of “Into the Woods” from Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021). Creel made her television debut in 2003’s “Eloise at the Plaza” and has also appeared in “American Horror Stories” and more.
Bette Midler and others cry
Following this shocking news, Gavin Creel received an avalanche of loving messages and heartbreaking tributes. His “Hello, Dolly!” » co-star Bette Midler offered condolences, writing on Instagram: “Radiant actor Gavin Creel, beloved by the Broadway community, has passed away from 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. other greats of stage and cinema.
Gavin Creel is survived by his partner Alex Temple Ward, his two sisters Allyson and Heather and his parents.
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