Tony-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel dead at 48

Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Hair,” died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed.He was 48.The young actor’s cause of death was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer that he was diagnosed with in July.Born in Findlay, Ohio, on April 18, 1976, Creel got his big break on Broadway in 2002, when he played Jimmy in the musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” opposite Sutton Foster at the Marquis Theater.Having a particular knack for musical comedy, he went on to star in “La Cage aux Folles,” “Hair,” “The Book of Mormon,” “She Loves Me,” “Waitress,” “Hello, Dolly!” and most recently “Into the Woods.”Creel won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 2017, for his performance as Cornelius Hackl in “Hello, Dolly!” starring Bette Midler.Story developing....