With apologies to probably a thousand songs that I almost equally love, still I would choose "Some Enchanted Evening". From the first bar in the song, I'm lost.

"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL

"When She Smiles" from Lysistrata Jones; because when I heard Lewis Flinn sing it for the first time, I fell in love with him all over again.

“Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful” from Cinderella – though I prefer the second verse, “Do I love you because you’re wonderful, or are you wonderful because I love you." I feel all soft and mushy and then I go ‘Ahhh’ and then I cry.

"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from SIDE SHOW. One of the most exquisite songs of all time, from the theater or not. The music is beautiful and the lyrics touch me deeply. Everyone - at one point or another - has felt like an outsider, and this song expresses that beautifully. Thankfully, Broadway is a wonderful place where all the fabulous freaks can come together and have a sense of community. I love it and this song!

Many thoughts and titles come to mind but Kern's last show wind. I say "All The Things You Are," from VERY WARM FOR MAY.

"If I Loved You" from Carousel.

"Warm All Over" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser.

I'd say, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," from SHOWBOAT. Because, rather than being a lugubrious ballad, like most of Broadway's classic love songs, it's a bouncy and upbeat number that at the same time manages to be touching and sweetly melancholy.

In light of the fact that there is going to be a musical based on the music of John Lennon, I would have to say that my favorite love song is "Here There and Everywhere" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It has a vulnerability in its lyrics while at the same time, there is an extremely challenging vocal line happening. The lyric "running my hands through her hair" shows a softness of heart and intimacy that only Lennon and McCartney could expose, all the while singing a most dexterous musical passage. "But to love her is to meet her everywhere". This song inspires me to love more and more deeply each time I hear it. It also challenges me as a musician and teacher.

"People" from FUNNY GIRL, because when Barbra Streisand sang it, she was radiating love for Nicky Arnstein, humanity, musicals, and (most deservedly of all) herself!

My songs would be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "On the Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY.

I think Irving Berlin's song "What'll I Do" from THE MUSIC BOX REVUE is terribly romantic and melancholy. And I love it when Bernadette (Peters) sings it!

"I've Never Been In Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS - a big bold shouting love to the world. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" - The song speaks to everyone's secret fear, being alone without a loved one on New Year's Eve...

"I Wish I Could Forget You" from PASSION.

I'd say "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL, because they don't admit they're in love, they pretend it's only a possibility, and that restraint breaks your heart.

If I think about this too long - it's nearly impossible to answer simply. Too many lists, qualifications and memories. But - the immediate response: "In a Very Unusual Way" from NINE. I saw the original cast of NINE when I was in my (very) early 20's - but had no recording, only a memory. When I saw the revival of NINE - which to my mind - is the romantic musical for adults who've been through any kind of romance - I just cried through Laura Benanti's performance. The song and her performance so revived and enhanced my memory of the first, so matched how I feel about romance now, as an adult, that it still musically haunts and fills my heart. I'm listening to it now, as I type.

I can't speak to "the best ever," but I think the song "The Next Ten Minutes" from Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS is one of the most beautiful love songs written for musical theatre. There are sentimental reasons of course....

I am probably partial to ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, but I have to say that "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorite love songs. Creating the arrangement for Bernadette a few years ago lives as one of my sweetest Broadway memories. Irving Berlin had a simplicity that just cuts right to the heart of the matter.

My favorite romantic song is Richard Rodgers and Larry Hart's "Spring Is Here." Hart understood romance, which is to say he knew it doesn't last and for many lonely souls doesn't exist at all. "Spring is Here" contains the most poignant last line I know: "Spring is here, I hear!"

To me, what makes a love song poignant and romantic is when it's sung by a real person to or about a real person. And real people are imperfect. And mature love is a lot about loving someone's imperfections -- or loving despite their imperfections. There are two songs that fit this description perfectly, and they never fail to move me. The first, fittingly enough, is "My Funny Valentine". (Pal Joey, Rodgers & Hart.) "Your looks are laughable/Unphotographable/Yet you're my favorite work of art". The other is "What Makes Me Love Him?". (The Apple Tree, Bock & Harnick.) "What makes me love him?/It's not his singing/I've heard his singing/It spoils the milk/And yet, it's gotten to the point where I prefer that kind of milk". It's set to a brilliantly simple melody, which makes it all the more romantic and poignant. I don't mind admitting that it makes me cry every time I hear it.

I think the most romantic love song is "The Music That Makes Me Dance" from FUNNY GIRL. If you are fortunate enough to have that deep kind of love for someone,which the song is clearly addressing, it is pure magic. It works for me because I have been dancing to the same music for 28 fantastic years and there is nothing better. Happy Valentine's Day.

"Timeless to Me", of course. That song celebrates the depth of love for the long haul. (would you expect me to say anything else!) A close second is "I Could Have Danced All Night". It captures the exhilaration and promise of the very first moment of falling in love.

"I'll Cover You" from RENT

That would be a song I've used to romance women with. It's a cute song - "I Get A Kick Out Of You" (ANYTHING GOES) - it's a fun song to get the girl in the mood. That's my love song for any beautiful woman that I'm dating on Valentine's Day. Cole Porter knew his stuff. He also wrote the lyric "Let's do it!"- which is my theme song.

There are so many great romantic love songs from Broadway shows... I could make an endless list. But my favorite, by far, is "Yours, Yours, Yours" by Sherman Edwards from "1776." Every time I see a production of the show or hear it on a Broadway Cast Recording, it leaves me in a puddle. That song destroys me every time.

Rodgers & Hart "Small Hotel" especially the Portia Nelson recording.

I'd have to name "Music That Makes Me Dance" as first performed on Broadway in FUNNY GIRL by Barbra Streisand and then even more memorably by Mimi Hines. Great 11:00 number by Jule Styne with Bob Merrill's moving lyrics.

The most romantic show song would have to be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. First, it's a tease. They're not saying they are in love, but they're not fooling anybody, least of all each other. But, if played properly, the scene with Billy and Julie isn't just a cute opposites-attract kind of romantic moment. You can feel the awesome force of Nature inexorably drawing them together. They're standing beneath these blooming trees and the blossoms are falling all around them. And as Billy and Julie move closer together, they nervously note that there is no breeze to make the flowers fall. She breathes, "It's just their time to." And they're in each other's arms. It's love, it's death, it's love in the face of death, which is what CAROUSEL is all about, and, really, what life is all about. Yow!

"This Nearly Was Mine" from SOUTH PACIFIC