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 later cooked up Emmy-winning sitcoms like “Only Murders in the Building” and “Schitt’s Creek,” got their start doing a musical version of the Book of Matthew at the Royal Alexandra Theatre. The list of actors playing Jesus and his disciples includes Martin Short , Eugene Levy , Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin and Dave Thomas, plus musical director Paul Shaffer, all of whom would go on to have renowned careers on stage and screen. The show and its legacy are the subject of “You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and

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