Gavin Creel’s ‘Walk on Through’

In learning to appreciate art, you can come to better understand yourself. That’s the gentle truism that undergirds Walk on Through, in which Gavin Creel — a “museum novice,” according to his subtitle — discovers a love for the Metropolitan Museum of Art after ignoring it for much of his adulthood. Early on in the show, he sees a painting of a female singer, Henry Lerolle’s The Organ Rehearsal, and imagines an interior life for her not dissimilar to his own as an auditioning actor: “She stands alone and knows the only thing that matters is the music that she’s holding. She’s been in practice rooms for hours with a piano and the musical director and his nasty old assistant. This is the moment that she’s only dreamt before …” Creel continues on, and in watching him watch…