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The stage and screen vet talked to THR about 'You Had to Be There,' a documentary about the live theater production of the hippie musical that also launched the careers of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, ...
The musical “Godspell” premiered off-Broadway 54 years ago. Consisting of parables from the Gospel according to Matthew, the pop-rock infused, hippie-era tuner is quaint by today's standards. But its ...
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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 ...
The comedy revolution referred to by the title of Nick Davis’s sharp and effusive documentary “You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…” is the one that took place ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Little Victory Theatre’s latest production of “Godspell” is set for this weekend and next in Travis. Based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, the musical revolves around ...
Victor Garber (center) as Jesus, surrounded by Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and more in 1972 Toronto 'Godspell' production. TIFF The original 1971 off-Broadway production of ...
“It feeds the myth,” says Davis. “If we had footage of Loch Ness Monster, it wouldn’t be the Loch Ness Monster.” Ahead of the film’s Toronto premiere, two of the figures who made “Godspell” so mythic, ...
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 ...
HUNTINGTON — When Bruce Rous was young, his church youth leaders took a group to see the musical “Godspell.” The youth were moved by the performance and took so much away from it that when they came ...
BATH – Loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend to many. Joanne Elizabeth Joyce was born in Roslindale, Mass., a suburb … BATH – Loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend to ...