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PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Gavin Creel
By Ernio Hernandez
03 Jun 2009
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Gavin Creel
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Gavin Creel — a 2009 Tony Award nominee for his performance in the Broadway revival of Hair — fills out Playbill.com's questionnaire with random facts, backstage trivia and pop culture tidbits.
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Full given name:
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Gavin James Creel
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Hometown:
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Findlay, OH
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Zodiac sign:
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Aries
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Audition song:
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When I first moved here, my audition song was "Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life" from Starting Here, Starting Now. So young... so eager.
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Special skills:
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I was a competitive swimmer all growing up. I play the piano and trumpet, and I can make a cooing turtledove sound by blowing into my hands...it's very impressive.
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How you got the nomination news:
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New York 1, baby! Lin-Manuel Miranda read my name!
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Nominee you're most excited for:
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I want Will [Swenson, Hair co-star] to win.
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Who you are taking Tony night:
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Broadway's Mary Poppins: the beautiful and phenomenally talented Scarlett Strallen. We met in London while I was over there playing Bert on the West End.
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Previous Tony experience:
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I got to go to the Tonys once before when I was nominated for Millie. It was a great night, but I'm really looking forward to this time around because I'm actually in the number we are doing, and I can't wait for the tribe to blast onto that stage and through everyone's TVs at home.
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First Broadway show ever saw:
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Show Boat 1994
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If you could go back in time and catch any Broadway show, what would it be?
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I want to see LaChiusa's Wild Party again. I had tickets to go back a second time, but my grandmother sadly passed away and I couldn't go. I loved that show.
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Current show you have been recommending to friends:
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Next to Normal
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Favorite show tune:
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"I Couldn't Be with Anyone But You" from A Wonderful Life. My favorite theatre lyric.
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Most played song on your iPod:
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Well, "Lip Trills" just nudged out "Descending OH's" for the most played song on my iPhone. These are two of the biggest hit songs from my warm-up tape. But the popular song that had the highest play count was "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay.
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Last book you read:
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"The Time Traveler's Wife"
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Must-see TV show:
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"Divine Design"/"House Hunters"/"House Hunters International" - HGTV!
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Last good movie you saw:
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"Star Trek"
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Performer you would drop everything to go see:
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Toni Collette
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Pop culture guilty pleasure:
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Does "Amazing Race" count?
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First stage kiss:
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Don't remember the actual first one but the first real, true, deep, hot, amazing stage kiss... Caissie Levy, every night in Hair... she's good.
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How you got your Equity card:
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Ensemble at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 1997
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Worst flubbed line:
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Recently in Hair, I totally blanked on the entire second verse in "The Flesh Failures" at the end of the show. I finished the first verse and froze. I had no idea what the words were, so I just walked forward in silence with my arms out. Will started screaming out "CLAUDE!!!" to try and fill space but I just kept walking... in silence... Megan Lawrence told me afterwards that that is called going into "the white room." I don't like the white room.
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Worst costume ever:
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These mustard pants I wore for a hot second in Millie. They got cut in previews, but there is still a pic of me in them in the souvenir program. Marty P[akledinaz] is a God [of a] costume designer, but those particular pants...not my favorite.
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Who would play you in the movie?
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Jim Carrey
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Worst job you ever had:
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Mowing lawns. Hated it.
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TV or commercial gig you most enjoyed:
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The homemade videos I make for Broadway Impact (have you called your senator yet? Don't be afraid or lazy. Call him/her and let them know that marriage equality is important to you and to vote for it!)
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Leading man role you've been dying to play
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I want to do an amazing new role in a kick-ass new musical, but if I had to pick something that has been written already, I'd say Franklin Shepard from Merrily... I want to take a crack at that asshole. Stine from City of Angels would be a blast too. But I'm waiting for that new show... maybe I'll write it. Who knows.
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