With thanks to eBay!

In 1968 (May 20th) an article was published in the New York Times that a new musical would come to Broadway, starring Dustin Hoffman. Music would be written by Paul Simon.
The musical would be staged 116 times in the NY Brooks Atkinson Theater from December 5 – 1968 and close on April 26, 1969. Unfortunately Paul Simon must have had second thoughts about him contributing to the musical as the actual music was written by (Loovin’ Spoonful)

 

Cleveland – Public Hall

Recently it was brought up here that Simon & Garfunkel played at the Odeon Theatre in Manchester. You can read about in the comments to the 1967 page.

I knew too they played the Odeon, but I never put that on my 1968 page. It was www.paul-simon.info that did wake me up again (thank you Bodo) and I will add these to my 1968 list.
(see also: https://roboud56.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/1966-march-simon-garfunkel-for-concerts-in-the-uk/, but here wrongly thought to be in 1966).

(from Melody Maker March, 1968)

The concert in the Odeon Theatre is there, but it was not 1967, but 1968.

1968-03-03 Manchester, Odeon Theatre
1968-03-04 Edinburgh, Usher Hall
1968-03-08 London, Royal Albert Hall

1968-05-30 Birmingham, Town Hall
1968-07-00 London, Royal Albert Hall

If I remember well Art Garfunkel had to cancell one or two shows too, because of some problems which he  had to solve in the US. I must look that up too, it could have been ‘throat problmes’. That might be the cause for a second concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in Juy of that year.

But new for this posting too is a concert in Birmingham at  Town Hall. I was able to buy a ticket stub at eBay when prices were still reasonable:

And as it often happened Garfunkel’s name became Garfunkle.

Anyone who has more infor about the concerts, please feel free to inform us!