The late Gavin Creel once expressed his love for a certain Broadway venue and the cast that had joined him there. "When I die, the heavens are going to open up and we're all going to go to the Al Hirschfeld Theatre — all the same people — and we're going to do [Hair] again," the actor, who played Claude in the musical, said in an interview that has been widely shared on social media in recent days.

When the Broadway League announced Friday that only a select few theaters would participate in the traditional lights-dimming ceremony — 11, representing one venue from each theater owner — the Broadway community was both heartbroken and outraged that Creel would not receive the full tribute when all venues participated. The Eugene O'Neill Theatre, where Creel had starred in The Book of Mormon, later announced that it would also participate in the tribute (date TBD), and a Change.org petition started by Time Out New York theater critic Adam Feldman calling for the full, rather than partial, tribute quickly garnered hundreds of signatures, a number that has grown to more than 20,000 in just a few days.

Now, Creel's beloved Hirschfeld has left the ranks of the League's official roster by adding his participation to the tribute, a move that comes after numerous social media posters and Creel fans pointed out that the actor has a special fondness for the location where director Diane Paulus staged the Hair revival in 2009 (following a highly successful run at Shakespeare in the Park).

The Hirschfeld, where Moulin Rouge! is currently playing, is the second venue not on the League's original list that is, as one fan put it on social media, joining the tribute "on its own accord," after the O'Neill (that venue said it was "accidentally" left off the original list.)