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When we talk about music icons of the 20th century, names like The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, U2, and Aretha Franklin are just a few names from many industry titans who serenaded the airwaves. Simon and Garfunkel were two incredibly talented lyricists and brilliant harmonists. They are known to have created a soundtrack for an entire generation that were hurting, yearning for better times, and wore turtlenecks to mask the troubles they were going through.
Most notably known for their 1970s hit 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' the song earned multiple best-selling album awards from 1970 to 1973. For context, this was more than The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, and even The Beatles!
They gave an entire generation a lifetime of music to enjoy and cemented their place in musical folklore for all time. The story of Simon and Garfunkel and their musical exploits has made its way to the stage in the form of The Simon and Garfunkel Story.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story follows the duo's lives as they navigate the avenues of life and make music that will immortalize them as musical legends. The play will take you from their rise in the mid-50s towards their 1981 reunion in Central Park.
You will see the duo happy, excited, and hopeful as they ponder the possibilities in a future full of potential. There will be euphoric highs and desolate lows, which will be a rollercoaster of emotions for the fortunate people who make their way over to watch the play. We will see how the two went from a duo with a dream to becoming artists that have sold almost 100 million albums since the 1960s.
"The bedrock of the whole show is the music," star Taylor Bloom who plays Simon said in an interview. "We play 29 Simon and Garfunkel songs over the course of the two acts. We have an amazing four-piece band backing us. ... That's the main event: playing Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel's music in a live setting, reproduced to such a high degree of exactness to how it was produced."
When you add their 10 Grammy awards and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, you have a story that is truly remarkable from start to finish. The cherry on top is their Grammy Lifetime Award which ties their story up in a pretty bow and prepares it to become a compelling watch for people of all ages.
"There's this beautiful projection screen behind us that has all of these amazing visuals that depict what's happening in the world around Simon & Garfunkel," Bloom said. "They were writing and releasing music at a very dense time in American history. You had Vietnam unfolding, you've got the Summer of Love, all these different things happening."
This February, from the 22nd to the 27th, the CIBC Theatre will host The Simon and Garfunkel Story adorned with amazing acting, spectacular music, and a flurry of emotions. Whoever decides to see The Simon and Garfunkel Story will be treated to an amazing story that they will remember for their entire lives.
Be ready to feast your eyes on Simon, confident and driven, and Garfunkel, oblivious and lost in the sweet serenade he is making. You will hear their greatest hits, and with third-person narration, you will be carefully guided through their story to make sure you enjoy, learn, and take in all that they were and how they made themselves legends of music.
The Simon and Garfunkel Story has always received standing ovations wherever it was played, and this is going to be no different. If you haven't already gotten a ticket, go and get them now to make sure you can witness a wonderfully written play about a musical duo that lit up an entire generation with their amazing vocals.
Great ticket deals for The Simon and Garfunkel Story are available from this link at Goldstar, or if you purchase them with this link at Ticketmaster and use code CECILIA before seleting your seats you can unlock seats for only $59 (Ticketmaster offer is valid for Front Orch/Front Dress/Front Mezz seating locations for February 22, 23, 24, 27 (eve) performances.)