Gavin Creel starred in Hello, Dolly! (which won him his Tony), Hair, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Into The Woods, and more during his career
, his death was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, via a publicist, Matt Polk. The cause was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, which Creel only learned he had in July. He was 48.
Creel has been a Broadway mainstay ever since he made his debut in 2002 as Jimmy Smith, a charismatic young paperclip salesman, in the original production of. The role, which he played opposite Sutton Foster’s Millie Dillmount, earned him his first Tony nomination. From there, the incredibly watchable tenor went on to star in a number of Broadway and West End productions including the 2004 revival of, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance.
He did do a lot of other things, of course. In 2014, he won an Olivier Award for his performance as Elder Price in the West End’s production of. He went on to star as a replacement inin both the Broadway and West End productions with his close friend Sara Bareilles, who wrote the songs for the musical. The two shared the stage once again in 2022’sCreel was also a major advocate for LGBTQ+ rights.
That story, which premiered off-Broadway in 2023, turned out to be an incredibly “real, authentic, vulnerable” piece for Creel, whothat “as long as I’m writing stories they’re going to be queer.” He continued: “For some reason, when you’re gay, then it just all becomes about your being gay… There’s an infinite number of stories that can be told about me as a gay man, that have nothing to do with me being gay, or where that’s not the central focus.
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