Don Scardino

Did you alter anything to pull, because like you're saying, it's a few things that were, but It really, how you viewed it as opposed to other, the people that had the power to make it be.

Well, I didn't really, until I got to Don Scardino at Playwrights Horizons, I didn't really get a sense from anybody, even though they were all positive.

That is great.

You're going to make a record out of that? Very jazzy, isn't it? And so I didn't really get any, you know, encouragement to think of it in any particular way at all.

There were a few times when,

you know, we'd be in the rehearsal room,

and Don Scardino came in for some of them too, because he knew the world, you know,

like...

You know, Dave Thomas came in later, you know, and he obviously also becomes part of the backbone of like the whole Second City SCTV crew.

I didn't realize Don Scardino took over as Jesus after Victor Garber left.

And I know Don Scardino as the last victim in Cruising.

But he also pops up in stuff like Squirm and now is like this very successful TV director.

Did like a ton of 30 Rock episodes and stuff.

that featured some absolute titans of comedy.

And I think if you are a fan of comedy in general and like the history of comedy, the cast included Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Paul Schaefer, who went on to be David Letterman's band leader, Don Scardino, who's an incredible director, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, Jane Eastwood, Gilda Radner, Dave Thomas, and Rudy Webb.

And it features interviews with a bunch of other comedy aficionados, folks like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Myers, Janine Garofalo.

So I knew absolutely nothing about this production of Godspell.

We're

only missing Don Scardino.

I was going to say, you better get Donny Scardino in there.

Yeah.

This has a few people you might recognize.

John Candy, Mike Myers, Catherine O'Hara, Dan Aykroyd, Janine Garofalo, Victor Garber, Martin Short, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Heidi Gardner, Dave Thomas, Jane Eastwood, Gilda Radner, James Austin Johnson, Paul Schaefer, Don Scardino, Stephen Schwartz, Gary Goldman.

The guy from Wendy's is in that? Yeah.

The other one.

You'll hear first from Martin Short.

followed by Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Jane Eastman, Paul Schaefer, Don Scardino, Valda Avix, Stephen Schwartz, Victor Garber, and finally Dave Thomas, who graces Nick with the title that ultimately stood on top of this documentary.

So how can a documentary film like this one ever hope to capture the spirit of the 1972 Toronto Godspell? Yeah.

Is this just a dumb idea,

Ellen Burstyn is slated to return to Broadway in October, playing a devout nun who insists on her right to join the priesthood in Diane Schaefer's new play, Sacrilege.

The production, staged by Don Scardino, is set to open November 2nd at the Belasco.

Broadway stars are cleaning out their attics for the 9th annual Broadway Flea Market that takes place Saturday, September 23rd from 10 a.m. to 7.30 at Schubert Alley.

That's, of course, between 44th and 45th Street west of Broadway.

And Paul Schaefer.

In addition to that, other lesser known performers, Jane Eastwood and Don Scardino, who was later a director, did a lot of comedy stuff.

But I think what I just mentioned is enough.

Now there is, that's fascinating on its own.