🎙️ NEW EPISODE!
“What, Me? Shameless Plugs?” — Ep. 6 of My Favorite Sings is live!

David Goldsmith & Paul Gordon get real(ish) about:
✅ Launching the pod
✅ Taking notes (or not)
✅ Segment ideas they may never use
✅ And why filmed musicals might just save the industry

Also: some very shameless plugs. You’ve been warned.

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Just in time for the Tony's, David Starts off this week’s episode by springing the podcast’s Main Title song and accompanying video onto Paul for the first time. He remains unpersuaded and the protest continues. It’s Tony Nominations Announcement week as this episode is being filed, so naturally a freewheeling, snark-free (mostly) discussion ensues, along with a rapturous acknowledgment of Tony™ nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers, making her Broadway debut as Betty Boop, but who is also making her Gordon & Goldsmith musical My Improbable Sisters, in a very different and no less luminous performance as little-known civil rights icon Claudette Colvin, now streaming for free on YouTube, and you must go there now and watch it before you come back and listen to this episode. This week’s nerdlist includes a dive into some of Sondheim’s Greatest Patters. David allows Paul more TV and Film music discussion than he’s really comfortable with, but what are you gonna do? These are his Favorite Sings. Finally, Paul and David vow to Never Fight Again.

Why is His Girl Friday the movie not a good idea, but Guys & Dolls magnificently was? The answer is in the third of David and Paul’s Three Questions For What Makes A Musical: Does it sing? Do I care? And, Why This Show, Why Now? A little sneak preview conversation about the Gordon & Goldsmith opus My Improbable Sisters, streaming now on YouTube (starring Jenna Lea Rosen and Tony™ nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers). Some Legally Blonde, some Les Miz (an epic disagreement about the scansion of “On My Own,” some firsthand John Caird stories from Paul… why David and Paul are loving writing their next big project, an adaption of Dickens’ Little Dorrit… and then, per Paul’s request, this week’s Paul & David Break It Down concerns one of David’s patter songs (a waltz, and with a French accent) from that very work-in-progress. A peek into David’s lyric-writing process and the collaboration between David and Paul writ large. Not that you asked. Wait though, you did. Enjoy.