Gavin Creel, a beloved, Tony-winning musical theater actor who credited the University of Michigan for his success, died at his home in New York City on Monday at age 48.
In July, Creel was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer known as metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma; that same disease took his life.
Creel won the Tony for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical in 2017 for his performance as Cornelius Hackl in the Bette Midler-led Broadway revival of “Hello Dolly!” He was nominated two other times: In 2002 for “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” where he starred opposite Sutton Foster, and as the leader of a hippie tribe in the 2009 revival of “Hair.”…