RTE star opens up about his devastation over the death of pal and Broadway star Gavin Creel
Gavin died from canacer two months after his diagnosis.
2FM star and actor David O’Reilly has told of his devastation over the death of his Broadway stat pal, Gavin Creel.
The Tony-winning Broadway star who appeared in “Hair,” “Hello, Dolly,” “Into the Woods”, died Monday at his home in Manhattan of metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, his publicist confirmed to the New York Times. He was 48.
A 20-year Broadway veteran, Creel won his first Tony Award in 2017 for best featured actor in a musical for “Hello, Dolly,” and he was nominated prior to that in 2009 for “Hair” and in 2002 for “Thoroughly Modern Millie.”
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He also won a Grammy in 2023 for best musical theater album for the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” But he was also a close pal of RTE star David.
In a tribute on social media, David wrote: “Just so unbelievably sad. Dearest Gavin. He was my first Elder Price at The Book Of Mormon, when I did my first Cunningham show. He took me to see my first Broadway Show 'Pippin'. He showed me all around New York. He was always an ear when you were having a wobble. Thinking of all who knew him, how lucky we were.
“I did my first Cunningham show with you. You took me to see my first Broadway show. You showed me around New York City. You led with kindness. How lucky we were to know you. How brighter the world was to have you! Thinking of our Mormon family, Gavin's friends, family and loved ones.”
For originating the role of Elder Price in “The Book of Mormon” in the West End, Gavin won a Laurence Olivier Award in 2014. Between 2012 and 2016, he appeared in the U.S. national tour cast, performed on the West End and served as a Broadway replacement for the irreverent musical comedy.
He made his Broadway debut, and received his first Tony nomination, in the 2002 original musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” opposite Sutton Foster. After joining the original Chicago cast of Sondheim’s “Road Show,” he made his return to Broadway in the 2004 revival of “La Cage aux Folles.” In 2006, he made his West End debut in “Mary Poppins” as Bert.
He earned his second Tony nomination playing Claude Hooper Bukowski in the “Hair” revival in 2009 and transferred to the West End after its Broadway run. After his run on “The Book of Mormon,” he starred in the 2016 Broadway revival of “She Loves Me” with Jane Krakowski. The production was the first-ever Broadway show to be livestreamed.
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