‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ relives heyday of musical duo

Photo by Lane Peters / Ben Cooley, left, and Taylor Bloom sing the part of Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, respectively, in the national tour of "The Simon & Garfunkel Story." Photo by Lane Peters / Ben Cooley, left, and Taylor Bloom sing the part of Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon, respectively, in the national tour of "The Simon & Garfunkel Story."

By Susan Pierce October 22, 2019 3 min read

It’s a concert. It’s theater. It’s a musical retrospective.

Actually, “The Simon & Garfunkel Story” is all of the above.

This show, which stops in the Tivoli Theater on Tuesday, Oct. 29, is concert-style theatre about two boys from Queens, New York, who became one of music’s most successful duos of all time.

“We have a group of six people onstage playing the music. But there’s a whole backstory, a thread that goes through the story talking about Paul and Art, what they were going through personally at the time they were writing and singing this music,” says Taylor Bloom, who sings the part of Paul Simon along with Ben Cooley as Art Garfunkel.

“Ben and I play the roles of the biggest Simon and Garfunkel fans. We are just ourselves; but when the music starts and we start to perform, we do our best to embody the sound of Simon and Garfunkel. Our goal is that when people shut their eyes and listen, they believe it’s the real duo onstage,” says Bloom.