"In Buddy's Eyes," from Follies

"Say it Somehow" from Light in the Piazza. Love is the ultimate universal language. Also, because Matthew Morrison.

"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"- The Lion King. Hands down this is the most romantic, catchy, and love-filled song on Broadway. Those lions love each other so much! And those harmonies? I mean, come on!

"Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love - Because for the eighth year in a row I'm mostly likely going to be spending Valentine's Day on my couch eating ice cream and watching Steel Magnolias.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful"

My favorite Broadway Love song is "Love Will Stand" from Memphis the Musical. I always loved standing on stage, singing the background vocals to this amazing song, with Montego Glover owning that moment.

While I could easily make a case for many many Broadway love songs and why they are my favorite (...it's possible I've made a mixed-tape with this very list a few times in my life), I'll have to say: "Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance. I often find those lyrics floating through my head."

Giving three, because there are far too many to choose from. And all good things come in threes. (For proof, go see Straight the play.) 1. "I Got Lost in His Arms" - Annie Get Your Gun - Just plain gorgeous and spot on. 2. "What’s the Use of Wond’rin" - Carousel - My cousin asked me to sing at her wedding and I presented her with this and she said, “Ummmm is this a love song?!” I certainly think it is! 3. "You’ll Never Get Away From Me" - Gypsy - Anyone who knows me knows I had to pick a Gypsy song. "All I Need is the Girl" is a strong runner up, but I just love Herbie and Rose’s relationship and watching and listening to Bernadette and John Dossett perform this was a lesson in how to be in love on stage. Hopefully Jake and I will be able to compete with their chemistry!

As a hopeless romantic I'd have to say my favorite Broadway love song is "If I Loved You" from Carousel. Pure & beautifully haunting. That scene beneath the blossom trees is one of the most romantic in existence in my opinion. Undeniable love at first sight.

I love "I Can Hear the Bells" from Hairspray. It just captures what you feel when you really like someone.

The two Broadway love songs that found their way into my heart during my adolescent cast album binge period are still very much there today: "Love Song" from Pippin and "I Won't Send Roses" from Mack & Mabel. That dichotomy explains me about as well as I can be explained.

"If Ever I Would Leave You"- from Camelot

“Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat” from Cats

"Johanna" from Sweeney Todd. I happened to see a concert production in San Francisco with Georger Hearn, Patti Lupone, and Neil Patrick Harris when I was 11 and I've been a fan of the piece ever since.

Mine is "Written in the Stars" from Aida, because it's put into perspective how difficult being in love can really be and how we can be confined to color and money over our hearts desires. I love anything that makes me think, and this song does that! Plus it's written and sang beautifully!

"Last Night Of The World" from Miss Saigon. So romantic.

"Three Little Words" from Ghost. It's beautiful and not overdone....and maybe because I struggle myself with saying it at times :/ Granted... I haven't had someone to say it to in YEARS! #WhereAreYouSoulMate?

One of my favorite love songs of all time is "Feels Like a Home" by Randy Newman from Faust. I love this song because of its simplistic melody; it yearns, it is resolved, it has learned to respect the need for love.

Mine is "Would You Light My Candle" from Rent. I used to passionately improv dance to that song along in my bedroom - ha!

"Best Worst Mistake" from If/Then

"Suddenly Semore" from Little Shop of Horrors.

One of my favorite love songs is "My One And Only Love" especially as sung/played by Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane. It is a beautiful song with a gorgeous lyric and it has sentimental associations for me—it was the first dance at my wedding!

My favorite Broadway love song (right now, these things are always changing) is "Being Alive" from Company. Like so many Sondheim songs, the beautiful melody is deceptive, and the lyrics reveal ambivalence and conflictedness. The singer realizes that love is going to hurt, it's going to be inconvenient, it's going to downright suck sometimes, but that it's all worth it because truly loving is truly living. It's a realistic love song for grownups, not a candy-coated, idealistic one, and I dig that. It's also my favorite right now because Jessie Mueller sang a gorgeous rendition of it at my wedding this past October, and hearing the song reminds me of that magical evening.

I think my favorite Broadway love song would have to be "Some Other Time" from On the Town. I think it captures beautifully the uncertainty of love and the idea that if you truly love someone you have to let them go live their best life.

"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face” by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. The rise and fall of the melody and Higgins’ realization in the lyric of just how deep he has fallen in love gets me every time. A perfect song.

"Some Enchanted Evening." Mostly because it reminds me of a horrible knock knock joke my mom used to tell: Knock Knock. Who's there? Sam and Janet. Sam and Janet who? SaammandJannnnnted Evvenninnngg. It doesn't really work but I loved the singing!

"Fanny" from Fanny. It's my favorite because a sailor sings about how if he hadn't already given his heart away to the sea, he would give it to his soul mate, Fanny. But he must follow his dream and leave Fanny behind while he journeys out and sails. The melody is gorgeous and every time he repeats her name you can tell his sweet little tenor voice dies a little bit and it just breaks my heart. The song isn't overdone which is refreshing, and as Show People can't we all relate to putting our craft first before pretty much everything? It's like the "What I did for Love" of a sailor in 1954.

This is going to seem self-help-y but I am always blown away by "I'm Here" from The Color Purple, but it's not about romantic love it's about self love! You have to love yourself! Be your own Valentine - it's a made up holiday anyway.

My favorite love song is "How High The Moon" performed by Pat Suzuki. It wasn't a Broadway song, but she was a Broadway actress. That totally counts, right?

“Tonight” from West Side Story