Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning Broadway star who starred in “Hair,” “Hello Dolly” and “Into the Woods,” died Monday at his Manhattan home due to metastatic melanotic nerve sheath sarcoma. A spokesperson confirmed that he had passed away. New York Times. He was 48 years old.
Creel, a 20-year Broadway veteran, first won Best Actor in a Musical in 2017 for Hello Dolly, and previously won Best Actor in a Musical for 2009’s Hair and 2002’s Thoroughly Modern. In 2023, he won Best Musical Theater Album for his work on the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.
He won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2014 for inventing the role of Elder Price in The Book of Mormon in the West End. From 2012 to 2016, she appeared in a national touring cast, performed in the West End, and held roles. A Broadway alternative to irreverent musical comedy.
Creel made her Broadway debut opposite Sutton Foster in the 2002 original musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. After joining the original Chicago cast of Sondheim’s Roadshow, he returned to Broadway in the 2004 revival of La Cage aux Folles. In 2006, he made his West End debut as Bart in Mary Poppins.
He received his second Tony Award nomination for his role as Claude Hooper Bukowski in the 2009 revival of Hair, and transferred to the West End after the Broadway run. After starring in The Book of Mormon, she co-starred with Jane Krakowski in the 2016 Broadway revival of She Loves Me. The production was the first Broadway show ever to be live-streamed.
In 2017, Creel finally won a Tony Award for his role as Cornelius Huckle in the Broadway revival of Hello Dolly, co-starring Bette Midler. He then played Dr. Pomatter in Sara Bareilles’ Waitress on Broadway and in the West End. His last Broadway role was in the 2022 revival of Into the Woods as the Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince, and he also appeared in the off-Broadway show Walk on Through: Confessions of a Museum Beginner. .
Creel made her television debut in 2003’s “Héloïse of the Square” and appeared in its sequel, “Christmas Héloïse.” He also appeared in an episode of “The Tangled Adventures of Rapunzel.” “American Horror Story,” etc.
