Cast + crew

Matthew Frazier-Smith
Role: Scarborough
Matthew obtained a degree in Theatre with a minor in Dance from Middle Tennessee State University. Matthew performed in numerous productions with MTSU’s Theatre and Dance departments and was honored with two Irene Ryan Award Nominations (Underwear: The Musical and Kid Icarus). His professional work includes Lend Me a Tenor, I’ll Be Seeing You, It‘s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet, and Carousel. In the summers of 2008 and 2009, Matthew performed in a musical revue entitled Die Amerikana Musikshow in Elspe, Germany. He also traveled to Honduras where he toured a collaboratively written, original play which focused primarily on the use of rhythm and physicality as tools for breaking down language barriers. Matthew has worked as a dance accompanist for MTSU, TN Governor’s School for the Arts, the American College Dance Festival, and SUNY Brockport. Matthew has been a principle artist for Core Project Chicago and Shelter Repertory Dance Theater since 2010 and is currently an MFA Candidate in Dance at SUNY Brockport where he works as a dance accompanist and Graduate Assistant. This summer, he will tour with Scarborough Fair—an original comedy based on the music of Simon and Garfunkel.

Brendan Johnson
Role: Fair
Brendan studied Theatre and English at Middle Tennessee State University before leaving to pursue music full-time. He has toured the country for the past two years and his band's songs have been featured in "Kourtney and Kim Take New York" and "Bad Girls Club". In 2009, he was part of a small group that travelled to Honduras to perform a collaboratively written, educational play. Also, his play "The Space Between" was selected to be read at the Region 4 KCACTF in 2009. This summer, he will tour with Scarborough Fair—an original comedy based on the music of Simon and Garfunkel.

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"Pick it up! Pick it up!"
by Eric Salo
Rating 3 stars
Good: Excellent voices. Matthew Frazier-Smith cranked out a near-perfect "For Emily" and followed it up with a very respectable "Bridge Over Troubled Waters". As someone who grew up on S&G, I was impressed.

Not So Good: Singing is only part of the package! S&G songs also include classic guitar riffs and for the most part these were conspicuously absent.

Good: Some very amusing gags built into the songs, including best use of a kazoo in the entire Fringe.

Not So Good: The banter between songs was very weak.

These guys have an obvious and infectious love of S&G. With better writing and especially some more guitar work this could become a particularly good cover act. Not quite there yet but keep it up!

Two men, a guitar, and a dream
by Will Weisert
Rating 4 stars
Much more amusing than I'd anticipated, plus these guys can really sing. An hour well spent.

Wish it were just the music. . .
by Florence Brammer
Rating 2 stars
Two stars for some well-sung S&G songs and a cute Aaron Neville impersonation. The banter between songs, however, was tired, tiresome and pretty dismal. Very little laughter from the audience for the performance I attended.

Great music
by Kelly Rosenthal
Rating 4 stars
Go for the music and enjoy the laughs.

Great Performers, Funny Send-Up
by Mark Long
Rating 5 stars
I like to think this show is skewering the Baby Boom generation a bit because they deserve it.
These are two talented singers/guitar players/actors who pretend to work through their issues while celebrating Simon & Garfunkel. It works really well, especially one particular voice impression (thank you for that one guys).
Well worth your time.

Superfans
by Angela Paulson
Rating 3 stars
Their love of S&G music is evident. Their musical talent (both taking turns on guitar- would have loved more egg shaker, tho!) is definitely there too, sporadic tuning issues aside. I felt their banter could have been a bit more plot-driven. Enjoyable show overall.

Harmonic convergence, no plot
by Fringivitis Vulgaris
Rating 3 stars
These guys are clever, whatever they do. They can definitely sing. They clearly love S&G harmonies well enough to both sing and oversing them. There just isn't much story to the show. Go for the musical tribute and the New-Agey laughs - the show starts before the lights go down!

A send up on a tribute works
by David Trudeau
Rating 5 stars
Smith and Bourdet are right on in creating Simon and Garfunkel vocally. What makes their satire on a tribute duo of "Scarborough and Fair" so enjoyable is that through the goofiness the musc does live. This is every bit as good as their Opera send up in last years fringe.

Good songs. Good Times.
by Corinna Troth
Rating 5 stars
These boys are cute AND they can sing and mostly play the guitar too! (OK, they sound phenomenal) And also there was a shakey-egg. My favorite is when they pass the guitar back and forth. And also when they randomly thank you. And also the story of how they met, because who doesn't love a dramatic story about meeting one's best bestie? Big hearts for Empire State of Mind.

The music was well done and I enjoyed the histrionics and general silliness of this not-really-that-poignant 2-man extravaganza of velvety mirth, complete with moustache.

My husband was mystified by the constant references to Simon and Garfunkle (may they rest in peace) but I thought it was funny so...who can say?

Party on Scarborough. Party on Fair.

Trippin'
by Eric Elefson
Rating 4 stars
I really enjoyed this show. They do a near perfect job of performing some of the best of Simon and Garfunkel. Interspersed throughout the songs is some great comedy. The duo works together very well and their comedic timing is good. It was the perfect mix of nostalgia and hilarity. This show is definitely worth seeing!

Funny
by Sara Robinson-Coolidge
Rating 4 stars
It is hard not to enjoy the music in this show, which is very well done. Some of the comedy is a bit forced, but it's funny and light and for those familiar with Simon and Garfunkel songs, it's just good fun.

Affectionate parody
by Andrew Troth
Rating 4 stars
Enjoyable performances of some great music, intertwined with some charming silliness. Fun!

Meh
by Eliz D
Rating 2 stars
The two performers did a wonderful job taking the stage and making the songs their own. The singing was nice and some of the banter was very funny. However - at times the banter and dialogue between songs felt forced, unnatural and potentially a bit offensive.
Go for the songs - ignore everything else.

In jest
by Jon Skaalen
Rating 2 stars
Well, thanks to these guys, I’ve not been able to get Simon & Garfunkel tunes out of my head for several days. Their intended concept, however, is unclear to me – they sing the songs well enough and do patter. OK - the Real S&G can do that and get away with it because they’re musical gods. But this patter didn’t seem like it knew where it was going; it wasn’t serious digs about the duo’s historied differences, or made-up stories about the songs – it’s just sort of flat. I hope they’re paying royalties.

Simon & Garfunkel in Concert
by Jack Silverman
Rating 5 stars
OK, I love Simon and Garfunkel so the music was a given. Scarborough & Fair, (Matthew Frazier-Smith and Brendan Johnson) have excellent voices and if I was to pick the set list, it was a perfect 10! I even guessed the last song choice, it seemed so obvious to me. As others have noted, the writing could have been better but all-in-all what better way to spend a warm summer evening reliving Simon and Garfunkel. Not to be missed!

Not long enough...
by Peg Ledel
Rating 5 stars
Gorgeous voices, funny and charming. We so enjoyed your show. I hope to see you again this week. Nice looking boys to boot.

Musically hilarious bro-mance!
by DJ Gierhart
Rating 4 stars
These guys rock! The entire show carries you through non-stop hilarity and musical entertainment. The talent that these two have as a musical duo (resurrecting the late Simon and Garfunkel's memorable work) and as a comedic pair is an excellent delight to watch. They cover many S&G's work very well. If you're in the mood to see a light-hearted show made of S&G copulation, fused with the bantering bro-mance of Scarborough and Fair, Scarborough Fair is the show for you!

Good singing, not much else
by Diane Carter
Rating 3 stars
Frazier and Justin can sing, and as others have pointed out, these harmonies aren't easy. It's too bad that the scripting and concept are so weak. I'd love to see these guys with a better writer.

Not Quite Fully Formed
by Mark Mikula
Rating 3 stars
You really have to be a Simon and Garfunkel fan to appreciate this show. If you don't know their music, you will be hard-pressed to like this show. Frazier Smith and Justin Bourdet have talent as musicians, but their show was an odd mix of occasionally successful comedy and pretty decent covers. In a handful of cases where the comedy did work, the follow-through was ineffective, so their intermusical banter lost momentum. I expected a Smothers Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel mashup, but the comedy didn't rise to that level of quality. My most enjoyable moments in the show were where they honored Simon and Garfunkel as inspiration but did original adaptations or variations on that theme instead.

Are you going?
by Eric Wentling
Rating 3 stars
This was a pleasant show by two somewhat odd-ball musicians bent on bringing music by Simon and Garfunkel back to the masses. The banter between the two was funny and a bit awkward...reminding me a bit of Flight of The Conchords. Some songs were done very well, others were deliberately mangled for laughs. Not a bad show.

Nostalgic & Nice
by Scott Gilbert
Rating 5 stars
I didn't know what to expect with this one, but I love S&G Music and I knew these guys have been on the Fringe circuit so I thought I would give it a shot. I was not disappointed. They are really good and have a great show. Go see it. You will not be disappointed.

OkieDorkie
by Margarite Dante
Rating 3 stars
Simon and Garfunkel...alone this should make it pure greatness. Does it do anything to have non-S and G people sing the songs. Even with a but of comedy? Not very theatrical. Maybe we all needed to rock and hold up our cel phones. Gonna go listen to my old 8-traks on the ride home tonight!

Great!
by Andrew Watkins
Rating 5 stars
I don't know if this is a comic routine with S&G songs or S&G songs with a comic routine.
Two Beautiful voices from two beautiful people. Highly recommended.

Wow
by Paul Hogrefe
Rating 5 stars
Gorgeous voices and some schtik and surprises. Go see it.

Double threats
by Rick Treece
Rating 5 stars
These guys are entertaining comedians, but they pull off the music as well. As a singer, I know that the Simon and Garfunkel sound is deceptive in its simplicity. It requires careful, spot-on tuning and tone control in a very high range. The only time anything slipped intonationally was in a brief segment where the duo are re-imagined as rap artists.

The whole performance was incredibly polished, so maybe it was intentional.

So Lovely
by Nancy Paul
Rating 4 stars
I saw Frazier and Justin's preview at the out-of-towners showcase and immediately put them on my schedule. Their voices are wonderful, and if you're a Simon and Garfunkel fan, the songs themselves are worth a slot in your schedule. Beyond that, they are funny and charming. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. And the audience members around me seemed to enjoy themselves as well. I was charmed.

A really fun time!
by Bradley Johnson
Rating 4 stars
Love their rendition of Simon and Garfunkel songs. Great out-of-towner show to see. Don't miss it!