Just to clear up a few things about "The Simon & Garfunkel Story" staging Saturday in New London's Garde Arts Center:

• This is not a musical in which actors portray the iconic folk-pop duo with lines of dialogue and blocking and choreography and scripted scenes.

• Rather, actor/singers Taylor Broom and Benjamin Cooley, who respectively look and sound  a LOT like S&G, perform a retrospective of the duo's hits with the backing of a live band. Any biographical story line is provided by ominscient, third person narration supported by video footage and photographic montages.

• This leads me to believe Art and/or Paul are probably willing to accept the theatrical residuals that come from someone performing a "tribute band" concert, but they haven't given permission for dramatists to use them in theatrical performance. Or something like that.

• Who really cares about interrupting a note-perfect, live, two-hour replication of some of the greatest songs of the 20th century with a three-act story arc about Garfunkel's and Simon's offstage ups and downs? The music is what's important here.

• By all accounts, the performances are outstanding.

"The Simon & Garfunkel Story," 8 p.m. Saturday, Garde Arts Center, 325 State St., New London; $33-$49; (860) 444-7373.