This documentary pulls apart the legendary 1972 Toronto’s highly-improvisational production of the musical Godspell that was a comedic launchpad for a generation of North American icons: Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Victor Garber, and Paul Shaffer. What began as an off-off-off-and more off Broadway show, planted the seed which would become the sensibility for generations of Saturday Night Live and everything the came from that. (dir. Nick Davis, US, 2025, 98 min.)
“It’s about something bigger than Godspell — a pop movement that didn’t have a name yet, a cultural spirit that found its way into existence almost like (laughing) gas gathering in the air.” —Variety
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