Would comedy be the same without the 1972 Toronto production of “Godspell”? So many of the performers who turned “SCTV” and “Saturday Night Live” into cultural phenomenons in the ’70s and ’80s and ...
Victor Garber, Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, and others perform in the 1972 production of "Godspell" in Toronto. Credit: TIFF For the sake of brevity (and sanity), we'll refer to the film ...
The film captures how the 1972 Toronto production of "Godspell" was like "the '27 Yankees of comedy," creating a culture that influenced the world. But the “Saturday Night”/”SCTV” nexus represented ...