{
  "id": 11498073,
  "title": "You Had to Be There shows us how a Toronto musical gave way to a comedy revolution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/you-had-to-be-there-shows-us-how-a-toronto-musical-gave-way-to-a",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-02T17:51:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "National Post",
    "slug": "national-post",
    "url": "https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/film-you-had-to-be-there"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "You Had to Be There is not just a documentary about the celebrated 1972 production of Godspell in Toronto, which effectively launched the comedy careers of Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Andrea Martin, Paul Shaffer, Dave Thomas and Victor Garber, among others. It’s a film about how the satellite of a Broadway musical midwifed […]",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}