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 experience.

“It was lightening in a bottle. It was clear to everyone that we were all in sync. It was undeniable. We didn’t know what we had, of course, except we knew it was working,” Garber told The Hollywood Reporter on Friday after Nick Davis’ documentary You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution opened the Whistler Film Festival.

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 experience.

“It was

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