Just A Quickie with...the hair apparent, David Tudor, on the art of being the new tribute Garfunkel to Dean Elliott's Paul Simon

David, you trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London; you've played U2 bassist Adam Clayton in the film Killing Bono and you've starred in two one-man music hall shows, Can I Do You Now, Sir and A Little Of What You Fancy?. How have you ended up playing American folk singer Art Garfunkel in a tribute show?

"Dean Elliott wrote the show about two years ago and plays Paul Simon and is also responsible for the business side of things. He auditioned me in January after the show's original Art, Johnny Smart, left after just over a year."

Did you bond straightaway?

"The great thing about Simon and Garfunkel is that they sing like two sides of the same voice, and we found our voices matched, so we then set about mirroring each other.

"We do 32 songs and they were already in place before I joined, so it's a very thought-show that starts with their schooldays hit when they were known as Tom and Jerry."

The show combines such songs as Mrs Robinson, Cecilia and Bridge Over Troubled Water in familiar Simon and Garfunkel mode with the story of the New York duo, told with the aid of original photos and film footage by Dean and you in your own voices. What is the overall impact?

"We tell the story of the Sixties quite a lot as well, as a backdrop, because Simon and Garfunkel's story tells you a lot about the Sixties, and we've found there are huge fans of the show everywhere. We've been to Zimbabwe, Italy; we're going to South Africa in late-November and we have a Danish tour coming up in January or February.

"It's on the cards to go to America, but the way Dean works, he's already booking shows for 2017, so it's a question of finding time. There's Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, and Dean's been in talks about the Philippines and Australia."

How have you mastered Garfunkel's distinctive voce?

"When I trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, I did a lot of work on turning my voice into an instrument, working on my range, and with this show the most important thing is bonding our voices together. Paul Simon had an unbelievable songwriting ability but went to Art for the voice."

And what about the distinctive Garfunkel look: the hair, the forehead?

"I've been blessed with growing up with incredibly curly blond hair and with a very high forehead, which, for the first time in my life, I'm very proud of! The show requires a lot of hairspray and some pretty high heels as I need to be taller than Dean. I got them from New Look...yes, they're ladies' shoes, ankle boots with a big heel as I couldn't find any men's shoes to give me some height.

"I got some funny looks when I went into ladies' shops asking for high heels to play Art Garfunkel, but at least my hair naturally gives me an extra foot in height too."

The Simon And Garfunkel Story, Grand Opera House, York, Wednesday, June 24, 7.30pm. Box office: 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york