Broadway Star Chris Peluso Dead at 40 – E! Online

Within the wake of his passing, Peluso was mourned by his fellow performers, who remembered him as a gifted artist.

“That is devastating. I solely have great recollections of Chris. I’m holding tight to the entire mild he shared. So variety. So humorous. So giving. So proficient and loving,” Toni Vans commented on Michigan’s Instagram tribute to Peluso, an alumnus of the college. Desi Oakley additionally added, “i realized a lot from his kindness & professionalism, i’m sending a lot like to all who walked carefully with him.”

Peluso’s theater profession stretched again to 2004, when he rose to fame as an understudy within the revival of Assassins. His credit additionally included performances in Broadway’s Lovely The Carole King Musical and Lestat, in addition to a task within the 2017 U.K. Tour of Humorous Woman.

For Peluso, his love of theater was all-encompassing.

“Theatre is my life. It has supplied me with pals, household, training, construction, which means, and goal,” he instructed Pocket Size Theatre in 2017. “If it weren’t for theatre I might not be the particular person I’m at the moment.”

Peluso is survived by his spouse Jessica and their two youngsters, daughter Aria and son Caio Lian Gomes-Peluso, in keeping with Playbill.