Gavin Creel’s untimely death at age 48 not only shocked the theater world as a whole, but also his closest co-stars and famous friends.
The Tony-winning actor’s death from metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma was confirmed by his partner Alex Temple Ward on Monday, mere months after Creel was diagnosed with the rare and aggressive cancer in July.
Since Creel’s Broadway debut in “Thoroughly Modern Millie” in 2002, he went on to star in “La Cage aux Folles,” “Hair,” “The Book of Mormon,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “She Loves Me,” “Waitress” and “Into the Woods,” also playing with other professional theater companies. Following news of his death, his co-stars were quick to pay tribute to the late actor, calling him one of their most beloved peers both on and off the stage.