Watch: Celebrity Deaths: 2025's Fallen StarsThe Broadway community is mourning one of its own. Bret Hanna-Shuford, who appeared in The Little Mermaid and Wicked, has died months after being diagnosed with Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and T-Cell Lymphoma, his husband Stephen Hanna-Shuford announced. He was 46. "It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that early this morning we said goodbye to the most amazing man, husband and Papa in the universe," Stephen-who shared son Maverick with Bret-wrote on their joint Broadway Husbands Instagram account Jan. 3.