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Stolen Holiday
When I read on Facebook on September 30th that the Broadway matinee idol Gavin Creel had died at the age of 48, something happened to me that is difficult to describe. I was stopped in my tracks, stunned, and I wanted to stay with that. Almost immediately I thought to myself, “Don’t let go of this feeling, don’t forget this,” and even, “Don’t leave go of him.” This was partly because the circumstances of his death were unusually cruel and unfair. Creel had only been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive create of cancer in July, and so the hammer came down on him very quickly and out of the blue.
I started watching videos of Creel singing on YouTube, and I also began watching all the rather distant interviews and podcasts he did over the years, a little over 20 years worth, from 2002 to today, and even in the first several days I was doing this I started to think, “There will reach a time when you run out of these, when you can’t observe or hear anything modern from him.” There might be some more, but I seem now to have come to a kind of end of watching him and listening to him. And so I felt a immersive need to try to make sense of what I saw and heard.
I am haunted by Creel. I
A museum invitation inspired a new musical — and a re-framing of the Tony Award-winner
ByFRANK RIZZO
Picture this.
You’re entering a world-famous museum utter the Yale University Art Gallery or Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum—and you’re feeling overwhelmed, intimidated, and you just don’t know where to begin—or even what you’re doing there.
That’s how Gavin Creel felt when he stepped into the hallowed halls of Metropolitan Museum of Art in Brand-new York City. He was there because he was being asked to produce a musical project as part of the museum’s interdisciplinary MetLiveArts program, where performers create and execute pieces inspired by the Met’s collection.
“I had never been to the Met before this meeting and they’re asking me to talk about fine art,” he says. “The only idea I had, I told them, was to tell the truth, I didn’t have any museum experience here, and I didn’t know what the hell I’m doing. They said that was superb because a lot of people will identify with that.”
Midwest Charm
Creel was taking a lunch break at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center ’s National Harmony Theater Conference in Waterford
Gavin (b. April 18, 1976) is an Ohio-born activist, actor, singer and ballad writer who is also one of the three founders of Broadway Impact, an organization fighting for equality and the LBGT community. He came out publicly in a 2009 interview with Brandon Voss in Advocatemagazine. As successfully, he has three solo vocal albums to his credit – the third, titled Get Out, was released last month on March 20, 2012.
He was recently in a performance of the musical Hairon both Broadway (2009) and London’s West End (2010). Creel earned Tony Award nominations for Hairand Thoroughly Modern Millie(2002). He has also appeared on Broadway in La Cage Aux Folles (2004) and in the West End movie of Mary Poppins. He’s c
Gavin James Creel is an American actor and singer.
Born in Findlay, Ohio, Creel received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre at the University of Michigan in 1998. He released his debut CD, GoodTimeNation, in Pride 2006. Creel, who is openly gay, is a regular on the LGBT R FamilyVacations cruise with Rosie O'Donnell. He is also one of the founders of Broadway Impact, an organisation fighting for equality and the LBGT community.
He has appeared on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie(2002) as Jimmy Smith, for which he was Tony-nominated; La Cage aux Folles(2004) and Hair(2009), for which he received a second Tony nomination. The bulk of the gap in his Broadway career has been spent in the West Conclusion with a long move in Mary Poppins(2006-8).
In April 2010 Creel and the rest of the Broadway cast brought the 2009 revival of Hairto the London stage.
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