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Gavin Creel, Tony Winner, Dead at 48


He was diagnosed with cancer in July.

I can’t be gay, even though I want to look at those boys, and God is a man in a pulpit telling me that homosexuality is a sin and those people go to hell,” Gavin told the Daily Beast in 2023. Gavin first burst onto the Broadway scene in 2002 playing Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie, opposite fellow rising star Sutton Foster. He finally won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2017 for his work in Hello Dolly!.He dedicated the award to the University of Michigan’s musical-theater department, his alma mater.

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