'It was head spinning': Actor Victor Garber recalls You Had to Be There magic

Hollywood loves a good origin story. And one of the best ones in the business centres on the cast of the 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell. Truly theatre lore, the production of Stephen Schwartz’s hippie musical retelling of the Book of Matthew, which opened in Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Theatre on June 1, 1972, launched the careers of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, Jayne Eastwood and musical director Paul Shaffer, am