“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, ...

"Godspell" is the archaic English spelling of Gospel, meaning "good story." While the archaic nature of the word is something ancient, Godspell is a musical takes on something from the more-recent ...

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 ...

There are certain cultural touchstones where we can see that things wouldn’t be the same unless these exact people got together at this exact time to create something that would become massively ...

One of the great aspects of Godspell is its flexibility in terms of setting. For this production, the audience found themselves transported to Venice Beach upon entering the space. The set itself (by ...

Attending Redhouse’s theater-in-the-round production of “Godspell” is like finding yourself inside a giant kaleidoscope, the classic children’s toy in which colorful tumbling objects viewed within a ...

"Godspell" is fun. I could insert a more semiotically-rich word to describe it, but nothing hits the intention of the show with its pigtails, Hawaiian shirts, sneakers and playful joshing as, well, ...

His memory may be spotty going back over a half-century, but Broadway veteran Victor Garber remembers his breakout role as Jesus in the quirky 1972 Toronto staging of Godspell as a life-changing ...

Victor Garber (center) as Jesus, surrounded by Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin and more in the 1972 Toronto 'Godspell' production. Greenwich Entertainment The original 1971 ...

If you enjoyed the brooklynONE Productions presentation of the musical “Godspell” in a Dyker Heights church earlier this summer and were hoping for a repeat performance, your prayers have been ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Would comedy be the same without the 1972 Toronto production of “Godspell”? So many of the performers who turned “SCTV” and ...