Tony Award-winning actor Gavin Creel died at the age of 48. Creel died at his home in New York on Monday. His death was confirmed to Us Weekly by his partner, Alex Temple Ward, through a publicist. The cause of his death was metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma,

Gavin Creel, the musical theater actor who won a Tony Award for "Hello, Dolly!" and an Olivier Award for "The Book of Mormon," died on Monday at his home in Manhattan.

NEW YORK (AP) — Gavin Creel, a Broadway musical theater veteran who won a Tony Award for “Hello, Dolly!” opposite Bette Midler and earned nominations for “Hair” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” died Monday of a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 48.