Shocking
I think š¤ he suffered with that name
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 30, 2024 5:09 PM |
Wow, just diagnosed with cancer only in July, and now dead. Horrible.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 30, 2024 5:13 PM |
That is pretty shocking. Gorgeous man, looked younger than his age. Saw him in The Book of Mormon.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 30, 2024 5:15 PM |
Saw him for the first time in HAIR and fell in love with him then. Was very disappointed that he was the only one in the show who didn't get naked.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 30, 2024 5:17 PM |
Datalounge was making fun of how bad he aged not too long ago.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 30, 2024 5:19 PM |
Has Kevin Spacey released a statement yet?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 30, 2024 5:23 PM |
This is terribly sad. Sarcoma causes a lump, swelling or abdominal pain. A fit 48 year old man would never think those symptoms were serious until it was too late.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 30, 2024 5:27 PM |
This is astonishingly sad. It reminds me of Woody Allenās quote, about life being divided into the Horrible and the Miserable. So many terrible people get to live and a nice happy man with a big smile who wants nothing more than to sing and dance has to die.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 30, 2024 5:28 PM |
Such sad news. Heās been my Broadway crush for a long time now.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 30, 2024 5:29 PM |
He was a lovely guy. This is heartbreaking. š
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 30, 2024 5:29 PM |
Was it BO?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 30, 2024 5:32 PM |
I grew up with those silly Eloise films and had such a crush on him. I was so excited when I found out he was out and proud years later.
And I know it sounds mind-blowing to die merely two months after getting diagnosed but anyone who's had someone suffering from an aggressive type of cancer in their life will tell you the same thing: the quicker death comes the better.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 30, 2024 5:33 PM |
Oh dear lord, this comes as a shock. I enjoyed him in "Hair" and remember he once dated Jonathan Groff. I'm thrown. May his memory be a blessing.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 30, 2024 5:37 PM |
Awful news. Talented, nice man. Cancer is taking too many people too young.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 30, 2024 5:39 PM |
Here he is with Aaron Tveit from a Miscast version of a song from Rent. This was about 8 years ago, and they both were primo.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 30, 2024 5:39 PM |
Are you fucking kidding me? Jesus how sad. I saw him in Mormon in LA and he was wonderful. Sounded like a lovely guy too by all accounts. Terrible loss for theatre.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 30, 2024 5:43 PM |
This is shocking news. He seemed like a nice guy and I really liked him as an actor. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 30, 2024 5:44 PM |
What a cruel world we live in when someone like him can suddenly die in the prime of his life, and rotten evil monsters live way too long.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | September 30, 2024 5:48 PM |
Saw him in London in Book of Mormon and a night later he was behind us in line to see Patti LuPoneās show that she did with Seth Rudetsky. He was pulled up on stage to supply vocals in a duet from Evita. He seemed a very pleasant, engaging man.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | September 30, 2024 5:50 PM |
I'm surprised this thread only has 20 posts. Figured we'd be well on our way to thread closure at this point, but it looks like no one noticed the Deadline article until several hours after publication.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | September 30, 2024 5:51 PM |
His Cornelius wasn't annoying and was actually likable. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 30, 2024 5:51 PM |
TRAGIC!
by Anonymous | reply 23 | September 30, 2024 5:52 PM |
I hadnāt realized how many things I saw him ināLa Cage, Hair, The Book of Mormon, She Loves Me, Hello, Dolly! Always excellent. Glad he won a Tony, though Iām sure everyone would trade that to have him with us and well. Maybe Chita was there to greet him on the other side.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | September 30, 2024 6:02 PM |
It is sad. But as someone who has the faculty of experiencing and interacting with spirits, all I can say is that what comes afterwards, for most āgaysā, is a state of accomplishment and happiness as we will find the answers to many of our questions and we will get to know why things are the way they are.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 30, 2024 6:05 PM |
"gays"?
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 30, 2024 6:11 PM |
He had a hot ass but.....
Oh man, can't even make a joke on this one. How sad.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 30, 2024 6:13 PM |
It was The Vax! Cancer patients don't up and die every day!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 30, 2024 6:14 PM |
There is one person on this thread who might be out of thorazine...name starts with an A...anyone know someone with an A in their name? Could be a brother you didn't know you had, an uncle who went camping and never returned, they might have tin foil on their windows...
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 30, 2024 6:19 PM |
R19, please control yourself.
Not every rotten evil monster lives that long.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 30, 2024 6:21 PM |
Broadway Mourns Its Beloved Gavin Creel: āWe Lost Our Princeā:
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 30, 2024 6:22 PM |
Sad, sad, sad.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 30, 2024 6:25 PM |
R29 I can totally understand why people would make fun of those of us who genuinely have a faculty that 99.999% of humans do not have. We expose ourselves to ridicule and mockery. Itās fine.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 30, 2024 6:27 PM |
[quote]Saw him for the first time in HAIR and fell in love with him then. Was very disappointed that he was the only one in the show who didn't get naked.
Interestingly, the only cast member in the original production who would not get naked was Diane Keaton.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 30, 2024 6:28 PM |
Fucking heartbreaking.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 30, 2024 6:29 PM |
10 weeks ago his partner last posted on Instagram. Cute pictures of them celebrating the partner's 10 years in the city with a cake in their little NYC kitchen. He was diagnosed just days later. Life is so, so unfair.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 30, 2024 6:37 PM |
Aw, so sad. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 30, 2024 6:39 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 30, 2024 6:40 PM |
Massive shock. Thoroughly Modern Millie was one of the first OCRs (possibly THE first?) I bought. I've listened to it so many times. RIP Gavin.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 30, 2024 6:46 PM |
We never saw the Creel dong in HAIR?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 30, 2024 6:57 PM |
This is so very, very sad. He was one of my favorite peformers.
When I saw him in MORMON in London, my hotel was located next to the stage door. Gavin would always be hanging out (usually with his dog), just chatting with people, long after the regular stagedoor crowd had gone. I talked with him several times and he was always so sweet & charming. (I remember sharing our mutual love for the West End MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, which was playing just down the road.)
I am gutted.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 30, 2024 7:09 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 30, 2024 7:31 PM |
Excellent article about Gavin. Wonderful parents.
[quote]When I came out to parents I was 25 I was terrified. They were wonderful. My mom cried a little bit. She said, āJust donāt go marching in any parades.ā 7 or 8 years later my mom and dad marched on Washington for equality with me.ā
[quote]His first therapist told Creel that by coming out he was ātaking your power back,ā and what his parents did with the information was none of his business; that if they ranted and raved and kicked him out of the house he would find his own path. āBut they didnāt do that. When I said to my dad I thought it would go worse than it did, he said, āI looked around the church and thought how much more dull my life would be if you werenāt in it, and how many people here ask us how you are.āā When the relationship alluded to in the show broke down, and Creel fell apart, his parents came to look after him, cooking, cleaning, and helping him cry it out.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 30, 2024 7:57 PM |
Did he and Matthew Morrison ever hook up with each other back in the day?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 30, 2024 8:40 PM |
I saw him in London when he was in Mary Poppins - the upside down dancing on the ceiling was just incredible, and you could tell how much he loved performing.
What a loss.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | September 30, 2024 8:52 PM |
Thanks to sites like YouTube, he will always be young, talented, and beautiful
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 30, 2024 9:25 PM |
r47. Thats not him.
Horrible, horrible story. By all accounts a lovely man.
Has Sutton commented? She must be shattered. They became great friends during MILLIE.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 30, 2024 9:50 PM |
Who was his first partner - the one he broke up with and went into a sever depression? It wasn't Jonathan Groff.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | September 30, 2024 10:02 PM |
I have to imagine this is what eldergays felt in the 80s when beloved gay men were dying in their prime.
Its horrible
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 30, 2024 10:12 PM |
[quote]Who was his first partner
That was me.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 30, 2024 10:13 PM |
I'll always regret that I was never able to meet him, in spite of being one degree of separation away: he took a photo of my son on the stage after a performance of "She Loves Me" standing between two of my former acting students who were also in the show.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 30, 2024 10:16 PM |
Jonathan Groff previously talked to Interview Magazine about the part Gavin Creel played in Jonathan's coming out publicly:
[quote] āI came out to my brother, then my parents, then my friends. But It wasnāt until a year-and-a-half later, in the fall of 2009, I was in love and dating Gavin Creel and he had organized these buses of artists from New York to go to Washington, D.C. for the Marriage Equality March on Washington. And a woman from Broadway.com was there interviewing people and she said, āWho do you represent at this March on Washington?āā he said.
[quote] Jonathan continued, āI froze. I hadnāt even thought about coming out as a public person. She was like, āOh my god, never mind. Iām so sorry.ā And then she moved along. And I really remember this moment of looking over to the right and seeing Gavin. He had also just recently come out a year or two before, and seeing him with a bullhorn corralling the people, god, I was so in love with him. I was like, āOh my god, I am coming out. Iām coming out. Iām coming out.ā So I went back over to her and I was like, āHi, please excuse my hesitation, Iām gay.ā And that was how I came out publicly at the March on Washington for Marriage Equality."
by Anonymous | reply 55 | September 30, 2024 10:17 PM |
[quote]r12 I know it sounds mind-blowing to die merely two months after getting diagnosed but anyone who's had someone suffering from an aggressive type of cancer in their life will tell you the same thing: the quicker death comes the better.
A seemingly healthy friend of mine was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and died one week later!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | September 30, 2024 10:25 PM |
How terribly sad when someone so young who is just trying to add some joy to the world around them is taken so soon.
It sounds like he went from treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering to at-home hospice care. I guess there wasn't anything they could do for him. What a loss to his family and community.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 30, 2024 10:28 PM |
So many Broadway actors posting about their sorrowful surprise at Gavin's passing.....I wonder, does anyone know if his illness was a closely guarded secret?
by Anonymous | reply 58 | September 30, 2024 10:31 PM |
[quote]R33 I can totally understand why people would make fun of those of us who genuinely have a faculty that 99.999% of humans do not have. We expose ourselves to ridicule and mockery. Itās fine.
Can you tell us why so many are molested, so many thrown in ovens, so many profiting off the misery of others throughout history?
Do your spirit friends/animals tell you that?
It would be so interesting to hear the serene justification - -
by Anonymous | reply 59 | September 30, 2024 10:32 PM |
Yes. He wanted it that way.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | September 30, 2024 10:32 PM |
Poor fellow. Yet Trump lives on.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | September 30, 2024 10:38 PM |
It is obvious Creel did not disclose this to many people. Aaron Lazar is dealings with ALS and has been very public with itā¦ I can see the randomness and futility in trying to rationalize a rare and quickly debilitating cancer contributing to Creelās decision not to publicize it. Lazar ironically through his diagnosis becomes part of a community that has a shared experience, which has major fundraisers and which Lazar is able to spread awarenessā¦ an extremely rare cancer doesnāt have that. Itās almost like a cosmic joke, especially for a gay man living in the post-AIDS world to succumb to a sarcoma.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | September 30, 2024 10:39 PM |
As a young teenager in a conservative, suburban area, I took advantage of the privacy of headphones to listen to the subversive 2009 revival recording of "HAIR" on a loop. Gavin Creel was one of the first Broadway voices I fell in love with, which fostered a lifelong appreciation for the art form. I feel very fortunate I was finally able to see him in "Into the Woods" 13 years later
by Anonymous | reply 63 | September 30, 2024 10:40 PM |
Shocking. Such a great loss. So talented and joyful.
RIP
by Anonymous | reply 64 | September 30, 2024 10:41 PM |
This is a gay gossip site obsessed with Broadway and not one poster seemed to have known, or else we all would have known.
Yikes, how scary to have cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | September 30, 2024 10:42 PM |
Was he the one that theatergoers said would reek from the stage at HAIR?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | September 30, 2024 10:44 PM |
To go from treatment to home hospice and dead in less than 8 weeks suggests that he had no time to fully come to terms with what was happening and that he declined so quickly that he had a very narrow space of time to communicate with his loved ones. Iām sure he did not want it public knowledge but he also had no time to take well wishes or visitors anyway. Ugh, so sad. None of us wants to linger in pain but Iām sure we all feel some sense of unease and dread at the idea of going so quickly yet not so quickly, does that make sense? Iāll take sudden cardiac arrest where I know absolutely nothing over getting just enough time to know Iām dying but not enough time do anything. His poor parents.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | September 30, 2024 10:45 PM |
That voice...I first him in MILLIE and I swooned.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | September 30, 2024 10:46 PM |
[quote] Cancer is taking too many people too young.
No, hon. š
by Anonymous | reply 70 | September 30, 2024 11:00 PM |
R67 = hysterical Frau
by Anonymous | reply 71 | September 30, 2024 11:01 PM |
My longtime partner went from hospital to hospice recently and has been gone several weeks now. There is no time to process. Cancer is insidious and debilitating. Gavin may have mercifully been unaware of everything but the love that surrounded him and the meds needed to make the pain bearable. What I saw in the last 7 weeks of my partner's life was unbearable. I walked around in a daze. He disappeared piece by piece. I'm thankful I was with him when he drew his last breath and of the life we had together. But what he went through and what I go through now is something I would never wish on anyone. Sounds trite, but they are both at peace.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | September 30, 2024 11:02 PM |
R72 I'm so sorry.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | September 30, 2024 11:03 PM |
Go ahead and MARY! me but the tributes I've been reading have made me tear up several times today. He was just so loved and admired. How many people can say that?
by Anonymous | reply 74 | September 30, 2024 11:12 PM |
The speed with which his cancer appeared to take its toll is truly shocking. I think I agree with R12 when it comes to aggressive cancers, in that your body begins breaking down so quickly. I have an indolent cancer that has been in remission for a while, but it takes over your life and is always just there, just a constant shadow. I'm frequently exhausted with worry, and with having to go to work every day and all the other BS.
But his was truly a light that shone brightly. I know two people who knew him slightly and they both greatly admired his talents and yes, his sexiness. What a shame.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | September 30, 2024 11:15 PM |
Verificatia of sizemeat?
by Anonymous | reply 76 | September 30, 2024 11:17 PM |
So sorry R72. Iāve been through it and I know I had some PTSD afterwards. āDisappeared piece by pieceā is a great way to put it. It takes a long time for those final weeks to be replaced in your mind with memories of the good times when the person was in good health. And it doesnāt help that thereās very little support out there. Please post here if you ever need to vent or share. The cunts and trolls generally stay away from threads on this topic and the nice people step up.
Iāll always remember Gavin in Hello Dolly, bursting with youthful enthusiasm and seeming 20 years younger than his real age. The āDancingā scene made me tear up in the theatre and itās making me tear up now as I remember Bette and Gavin with the biggest smiles, loving every moment. Heās left his mark on many people but boy do I want a word with our āmakerā before he dares to judge me because all the wrong people suffer.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | September 30, 2024 11:18 PM |
r71 = rancid troll
by Anonymous | reply 78 | September 30, 2024 11:22 PM |
Terrible news.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | September 30, 2024 11:31 PM |
Was the gray/white hair for a role, or did he go natural?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | September 30, 2024 11:32 PM |
I met him early on his career--before his big break in Millie--and so can also say that he was one of the kindest, gentlest souls in a very competitive industry.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | September 30, 2024 11:35 PM |
I saw him three times in the past seven years -
In 2017 opposite Donna Murphy in HELLO DOLLY. He was nothing less than phenomenal, as he had the audience in the palm of his hand. Saw him again the following year opposite Bernadette Peters - again, giving the performance as though he was giving it for the first time, with such enthusiasm and energy.
Last time I was in NYC I saw him again in 'Waitress!' back in 2019. What a talent -n what a performer.
May her RIP. He will be missed by his legions of fans.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | September 30, 2024 11:57 PM |
Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter lives on ...
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 1, 2024 12:19 AM |
He's hanging on to vote for Kamala, r83.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 1, 2024 12:48 AM |
Jimmeh turns 100 at midnight!
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 1, 2024 12:49 AM |
He was a lovely guy inside and out. What a loss.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 1, 2024 12:56 AM |
This is really just so fucking sad.
I didn't know the man, and I wasn't particularly a fan, but it has me down.
He tried to bring some joy to people, and by widespread accounts was a genuinely good person.
He was too young and went too fast. Not having time to process what's happening or say proper goodbyes has to be its own nightmare.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 1, 2024 1:05 AM |
What is up with fairly big Broadway stars dying way too young recently?
Rebecca Luker died of ALS at 59. Aaron Lazar has it now at 48. Gavin dead of cancer at 48.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 1, 2024 1:06 AM |
This is so sad. Such a lovely and talented man.
Fucking cancer.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 1, 2024 1:11 AM |
AIDS?
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 1, 2024 1:11 AM |
He hadn't looked well for a while.
He looks way too thin in the shot from the late 2023 show in the NYT obit, and here on local NYC TV promoting it. I remember seeing it and thinking he didn't look well.
He may have been in denial or chalked up the symptoms to something else for a long time.
Of course, that type of cancer is so rare and seemingly resistant to treatment, it probably didn't much matter.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 1, 2024 1:25 AM |
I saw him in Hair and She Loves Me. When I saw him in Hello Dolly, he was such a different character that I didn't realize it was him. When I did, my reaction was that he was one of the rare and special talents that sometimes grace the Broadway stage. Not sure why, but his passing has hit me hard
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 1, 2024 1:27 AM |
Don't forget Marin, r88.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 1, 2024 1:42 AM |
I saw him in "Thoroughly Modern Millie" and "Hello Dolly." Charming actor with a lovely voice. RIP.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 1, 2024 1:45 AM |
Gavin was one of the truly undisputed really nice guys of Broadway. It appears he had one of the rare and aggressive forms of cancer that rarely give any sign until it is in the final stages. RIP dear prince.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 1, 2024 1:45 AM |
Yes, R93! Marin Mazzie died at 57 in 2018.
All these people had a decade, or decades, of great performances in them.
WTF
by Anonymous | reply 96 | October 1, 2024 1:46 AM |
Judy Holliday died at 44.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 1, 2024 1:49 AM |
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 1, 2024 1:55 AM |
Be on the lookout for Susan Dey's condolence statement and please post it here.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 1, 2024 2:00 AM |
I was about to mention Marin too.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 1, 2024 2:01 AM |
[quote] In 2017 opposite Donna Murphy in HELLO DOLLY. He was nothing less than phenomenal, as he had the audience in the palm of his hand. Saw him again the following year opposite Bernadette Peters - again, giving the performance as though he was giving it for the first time, with such enthusiasm and energy.
I saw him opposite Bette Midler.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 1, 2024 2:02 AM |
Cheyenne Jackson says that heās known since the diagnosis.
In all likelihood he probably was a lot sicker for a lot longer but maybe had other issues like stress or exhaustion which he chalked it up to.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 1, 2024 2:03 AM |
Gavin was so hot as the cad in She Loves Me.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | October 1, 2024 2:08 AM |
Kristin's statement is really lovely.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | October 1, 2024 2:10 AM |
He looks gaunt in the lead photo here, taken last November/December.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 1, 2024 2:10 AM |
[quote]Thanks to sites like YouTube, he will always be young, talented, and beautiful
Thank you, Annelle. I appreciate that. And it's a real good idea. Gavin, as you know, wouldn't want us to get mired down. and wallow in this.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | October 1, 2024 3:01 AM |
[quote] See you in heaven.
Missy seems rather confident.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 1, 2024 3:03 AM |
Gavin Creel singing Billy Joel's āAnd So It Goesā about five years ago.
[quote] So I would choose to be with you, that's if the choice were mine to make,
[quote] But you can make decisions too, and you can have this heart to break.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 1, 2024 4:29 AM |
He seems ill in the clip at R91 - kind of wheezy and with the lollipop head/neck that DL's beloved Larry King once described as "that cancer look."
I wonder how long he was suffering, and if we'll ever know.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 1, 2024 6:42 AM |
Gen-X-ers are dying left and right.
Shannen Doherty ā NOT one of the beloved members of any industry āĀ died in July at 53.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 1, 2024 7:33 AM |
[quote]I grew up with those silly Eloise films and had such a crush on him. I was so excited when I found out he was out and proud years later.
Those ELOISE TV movies with Julie Andrews were my first exposure to him, too, as a middle school gayling.
I thought he was so cute and adorable!
A few years later when I got into musical theater in high school, it was fun rediscovering him via THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, which was already a few years old by then.
I remember making the connection that it was the same Bill from ELOISE whom I had adored as a tween.
Anyway, this is so sad and unexpected. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 1, 2024 8:21 AM |
Letās just say, I donāt think his family will be calling on Datalounge to provide his eulogy.
RIP Gavin
by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 1, 2024 12:40 PM |
You LPSG bitches disappoint me. Over 100 posts and not a single dong shot.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 1, 2024 1:05 PM |
Perhaps you should look for it on LPSG
Tell me r114
Be perfectly honest with me
Iām a very compassionate person
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Are you autistic or something?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | October 1, 2024 1:09 PM |
Shocking and sad. To be 48 and have no idea you're dying in June, and then gone by the end of September.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | October 1, 2024 1:13 PM |
R115 It's called gallows humor, honey.
Those of us that are actual humans use it sometimes. We don't priss out and point at everyone and shriek "Autistic!"
by Anonymous | reply 117 | October 1, 2024 1:14 PM |
R117, accusing someone of being autistic is also gallows humor.
Grow a spine.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | October 1, 2024 1:26 PM |
Actually, r114 and r115, I came here figuring Iād read a lovely tribute from someone who bedded this fine specimen.
Yāknow, something along the lines of āTragic ending for Broadway talent. Ok girls, whoās had him?!ā
by Anonymous | reply 119 | October 1, 2024 1:48 PM |
Indeed, R119!
He was a beautiful man.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | October 1, 2024 2:43 PM |
That pic at R106 is as shocking as this news. Iām so glad heās out of his pain. My heart goes out to his partner and pooch. How quiet it must suddenly be.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | October 1, 2024 2:51 PM |
I hate to ask, but was it Kaposi sarcoma?
by Anonymous | reply 122 | October 1, 2024 5:52 PM |
Do you not have Google, R122?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | October 1, 2024 5:59 PM |
R122, this CBS News obit has a detailed explanation of the kind of cancer Gavin had:
by Anonymous | reply 124 | October 1, 2024 6:21 PM |
RIP
R3 he looks 35ish there. Which is how old he was.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | October 1, 2024 6:27 PM |
What R123 would have said if he weren't a (you fill in the appropriate expletive) is, "He died of metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma."
by Anonymous | reply 126 | October 1, 2024 7:36 PM |
Fuck you, R122. Seriously. Fuck you.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | October 1, 2024 7:39 PM |
R126, in response to someone basically asking if he died AIDS? No.
This is Datalounge, not kindergarten. Does R122 need assistance wiping his asshole as well.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | October 1, 2024 7:43 PM |
It's funny, while I have seen the theater community go somewhat overboard on social media posts before when one of their own has died, this one feels different. It usually always devolves into a post about themselves, but with Gavin, you truly get what a kind and special person he was, and the people who are remembering him are making that the prime message. I hope that his loved ones will see these and take some sort of comfort in them.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | October 1, 2024 7:45 PM |
[quote]So many Broadway actors posting about their sorrowful surprise at Gavin's passing.....I wonder, does anyone know if his illness was a closely guarded secret?
Apparently, some of his closest friends knew. See Cheyenne Jackson's tribute in the article attached.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | October 1, 2024 7:49 PM |
Saw him in The Book of Mormon and the Into the Woods tour and had She Loves Me on my DVR for the longest time and watched it regularly (I thought he was miscast as Kodaly, but he gave it his all). Thought I saw him in the Hair tour, but a quick Internet search proves me wrong. Would love to have seen him in Dolly! with Bette. What a charming performer and apparently lovely man and what a loss. I lit a candle for him last night, MARY! me all you want.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | October 1, 2024 8:07 PM |
I will never forget his love and dedication to my dear friend. He came to see her when she was battling cancer and sang at her funeral. He had to leave his role to his understudy to travel to Michigan to attend.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | October 1, 2024 8:32 PM |
Even Susan Dey was shocked by this news. RIP
by Anonymous | reply 133 | October 1, 2024 9:15 PM |
R130, itās so like Cheyenne to tell us he knew ā and make himself look closer than anyone else. God, I hate that arrogant fuck.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | October 1, 2024 11:21 PM |
Because of course you know the exact nature of their relationship, R134.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | October 1, 2024 11:38 PM |
r134 makes me wish we had downvoting, like Reddit.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | October 1, 2024 11:40 PM |
[quote]Even Susan Dey was shocked by this news. RIP
How could you tell?
by Anonymous | reply 137 | October 1, 2024 11:46 PM |
Gavin Creed cared about Marriage Equality, so in 2012 he recorded a song, "Noise" to help that cause. The song seems to have been inspired by Ann Coulter(!).
In the beginning of the music video for this song, Coulter says that she supports "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" not only for the military, but for all of society. She wanted gay people to shut up and become invisible and leave normal people alone. Gavin's point in "Noise" was that if you shut up and become invisible, you'll never get to marriage equality or any other rights for gay people.
Marriage equality was achieved in 2015. What I get from this video now is how with a different career trajectory and producer, he could have been a pop star (although maybe his voice is a bit too perfect). He would have been a thrilling live pop performer.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | October 2, 2024 12:28 AM |
R130 Bette looked forward to working with him every night because he didn't dare try and upstage her.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | October 2, 2024 12:56 AM |
Gavin spearheaded the Broadway tribute concert to his college professor at Michigan . Many recognizable faces in the crowd.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | October 2, 2024 1:53 AM |
Although not married himself, he was one of the founders of Broadway Impact in the fight for marriage equality.
[quote]Broadway Impact was started by Tony Award nominated performers Rory O'Malley (Book of Mormon) and Gavin Creel (Hair) and production coordinator Jenny Kanelos. The project was started in 2009 and the trio helped gather groups of volunteers to help with Broadway Impact and spread their message.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | October 2, 2024 6:49 AM |
He was talking with Broadway.com about twelve years ago about his life and career. At one point, he talked about what he hoped he'd find in heaven after he died:
by Anonymous | reply 142 | October 2, 2024 6:59 AM |
This is sad, he was so beautiful
by Anonymous | reply 143 | October 2, 2024 9:51 AM |
He does look gaunt in R106 but his cancer is such a rare and aggressive form that itās unlikely he was sick 11 months ago. It seems to be as rare as a lottery win with few symptoms until the cancer has spread to the lungs, liver etc
by Anonymous | reply 144 | October 2, 2024 10:55 AM |
I pray that someday, his partner will be able to remember Gavin as he was before this horrific cancer overtook him. I know from experience, that part of the journey takes the longest.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | October 2, 2024 4:23 PM |
"the journey"?
by Anonymous | reply 146 | October 2, 2024 7:29 PM |
The journey of grief, R146. Lord.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | October 2, 2024 8:32 PM |
R146-Never lost a loved one, have you?
by Anonymous | reply 148 | October 2, 2024 10:24 PM |
Don't be a smug asshole, R148. I have lost plenty, including a few shocking ones in my 20s when lovers shouldn't be dyeing of slow painful disease.
I simply don't recognize YOUR fucking "journey" experience and I did not find it longest to get over the dying period, in my grief. I felt, thank god the suffering is over! I remember all the wonderful times with these people before the horrible end.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | October 2, 2024 10:43 PM |
dying
by Anonymous | reply 150 | October 2, 2024 10:43 PM |
by Anonymous | reply 151 | October 2, 2024 10:47 PM |
"I Believe" from The Book of Mormon. Creel won the Olivier award for his performance in this musical.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | October 2, 2024 10:51 PM |
At the start of my senior year in a small Michigan town, "Thoroughly Modern Millie", had just been made available for high school productions across the country and our choir teacher/musical director, leapt at the chance to secure the rights for our school.
Though I had never been in a musical before, a close friend urged me to audition. To prep, I listened to Gavin Creel sing "What Do I Need with Love?" on repeatāprobably more than a thousand timesāwithout ever tiring of it. I soon discovered he was also a Midwesterner and a UM grad. I watched every interview I could find and was drawn not only to his voice but to his generosity of spirit. If I was going to model my performance after anyone, who better than him? I had the good fortune of meeting Mr. Creel at the stage door of the Shubert Theatre in New York after a "Hello, Dolly!" performance during its 2017 run. He was as gracious as I'd always imagined. We swapped stories about Ann Arbor and Zingermanās Deli. At the end of our short conversation, he asked again, āNow remind me, whatās your name?ā assuring me heād remember me the next time we'd inevitably meet.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | October 2, 2024 11:20 PM |
R149-How lucky you were able to get over the hardest part so easily. Many people find it very difficult and time doesn't always help. Try to be a little kinder or at least more empathetic.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | October 3, 2024 12:13 AM |
Only DL could devolve into an insultfest over grieving.
This fuckin' place and the headcases that populate it....
by Anonymous | reply 155 | October 3, 2024 12:21 AM |
[quote] [R130] Bette looked forward to working with him every night because he didn't dare try and upstage her.
Not that he, or anyone else, could. Bette was perfection in "Hello Dolly."
by Anonymous | reply 156 | October 3, 2024 5:13 PM |
If by perfection you mean coasting on her 40+ years of fame.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | October 3, 2024 5:24 PM |
R157, what she lacked in the vocal department was more than made up for in ebullience, grace, humor and all-around Iconic Diva realness.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | October 3, 2024 5:28 PM |
I just listened to the final podcast he did. It was taped in July, and Iād be very curious to know if he had already been diagnosed, or at least was feeling like something was off. There seems to be a mania about him. As if he is speaking in a broader, ethereal sense. Perhaps itās just my hindsight hearing something more, but it wouldnāt surprise me to learn he had an inkling his time was limited. Itās heartbreaking. Seems like such a sweet, tender soul.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | October 3, 2024 5:34 PM |
R114 LPSG is a hot mess. They are like temperamental teenage girls. They're weirdly restrictive about some content (like Tom Holland in his spiderman costume), and then not restrictive about celebrity cock photos.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | October 15, 2024 10:38 AM |
He was very, very handsome. R.I.P.š
by Anonymous | reply 161 | October 15, 2024 2:17 PM |
This is his performance in MisCast24, about six months before he died.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | October 15, 2024 2:33 PM |