Judd Apatow and Nick Davis are producing a documentary about the legendary 1972 Toronto production of the musical “Godspell” that featured several future stars before they made it big, including Victor Garber, Gilda Radner and Martin Short.
The Stephen Schwartz musical, which consists of comedic reenactments of Jesus’ parables from the Gospel of Matthew, originally premiered Off Broadway in 1971 and was brought to Toronto a year later. Future six-time Emmy nominee Garber played Jesus in that production a year before reprising the role in the 1973 film adaptation shot in New York — and that was only the beginning of the stacked cast.
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