Broadway stars remember Gavin Creel after his death of a rare cancer. Bette Midler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andrew Rannells and Idina Menzel shared tributes.

His Hello, Dolly! costar Bette Midler wrote "Beloved by the #Broadway community, the radiant actor #GavinCreel has died from a rare form of cancer. He played Cornelius Hackl to my Dolly in 'Hello Dolly' and I looked forward to working with him every single night. He was fantastic. I can’t believe he’s gone. What a loss."

Gavin Creel's untimely death at age 48 not only shocked the theater world as a whole, but also his closest co-stars and famous friends. The Tony-winning actor's death from metastatic melanotic peripheral nerve sheath sarcoma was confirmed by his partner Alex Temple Ward on Monday,