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Judd Apatow To Exec Produce Doc On Star-Making 1972 Toronto ‘Godspell’

The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell that launched the careers of SNL and SCTV stars will be the subject of a documentary exec produced by Judd Apatow.

“As a bona fide comedy nerd,” said Apatow in a statement, “I’ve long wondered what exactly brought that amazing group of people together to produce not just a fantastic theatrical event, but what came after: Second City Toronto, SCTV, and of course Saturday Night Live – not to mention a host of movies and TV from Splash to The Three Amigos to Schitt’s Creek and Only Murders in the Building. The film is expected to detail the creative scene in Toronto during those years: Friends of the cast, which also featured Canadian actor and comedian Jayne Eastwood, included John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis, and Dan Aykroyd and his comedy partner Valri Bromfeld. When Toronto native Lorne Michaels was hired a couple years later to create the new NBC late-night comedy show that would become Saturday Night Live, the first person he cast was Radner, who he’d seen in Godspell.

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