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Headline: Tony Award winner Gavin Creel dead at 48
Caption: Creel passed away at his home in New York on Monday. His death was confirmed by his partner, Alex Temple Ward. The cause of death was a rare and aggressive form of cancer - metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma - which Creel was diagnosed with in July. Creel was a Broadway musical theatre veteran who won a Tony Award for Hello, Dolly! and nominations for Hair and Thoroughly Modern Millie - his Broadway debut in 2002. Creel's Hello, Dolly! co-star Bette Midler paid tribute to the late actor.
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