I am beyond thrilled to have an original theme song written for my Matching Minds podcast by composer-lyricist Colm Molloy. Check out his videos on YouTube here, especially his brilliant Sondheim birthday puzzle medleys, and on Insta as well. It was quite generous of him and extends our engagement from our original interview which he provided for the book on cryptic crossword puzzles. (Easter egg – when you listen to the audio collage at the end of each episode it is Colm who says “I feel like he was more obsessed with puzzles than musicals…”).

Colm then reached out to Ann Morrison, American actress best known for her Broadway debut as Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along. I don’t know how this magic came about, but Ann generously offered to sing the lyrics. Wow. Ann can be founded on Instagram as well.

I will work both the score and lyrics into various parts of the podcast. But here it is, as it deserves, on its own, at center stage: