Broadway Mourns Its Beloved Gavin Creel: “We Lost Our Prince”; Bette Midler, Casey Likes Among Those Paying Tribute
deadline.comREFRESH FOR UPDATES: Today’s shocking news of the cancer death of stage star Gavin Creel has left Broadway reeling and in deep mourning. “We lost our prince,” wrote New York City Center, where Creel turned in a for-the-ages performance in the delightful 2022 revival of Stephen Sondheim-James Lapin Into The Woods. “I looked forward to working with him every single night,” tweeted his Hello, Dolly!
star Bette Midler. “He was fantastic. I can’t believe he’s gone. What a loss.” Among the more poignant remembrances pouring onto social media comes from Casey Likes, the young star of Broadway’s Almost Famous and Back to the Future.
In a heartfelt post on social media, Likes writes, “absolutely crushed. Gavin came to almost famous and that is where we met.
I was in a very rough place as that show was closing and his words of advice kept me going and inspired me the past two years of being a performer.
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