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Valentine's Day is here and love is all around us. At this most romantic time of the year, we can't help but wonder... what is the greatest Broadway love song ever? BroadwayWorld continues our great tradition of finding that consensus- and this year we have more answers than ever! We've gathered responses from over 1500 performers, composers, industry professionals, and entertainment personalities from all over the world. 

This year's list is presented by The Notebook, now in previews on Broadway. Based on the best selling novel that inspired the iconic film, this new musical follows Allie and Noah, both from different worlds, as they share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart, in a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love.

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School of Rock | Newsies the Musical
I love the song, "Something to Believe In" from Newsies. The music is so beautiful and I absolutely loved hearing Kara Lindsay and Corey Cott belt their faces off each night!
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Trip of Love
My favorite is "With Every Breath I Take" from City of Angels because it's hauntingly beautiful and complex.
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Tuck Everlasting | Soul Doctor | Wonderland | A Chorus Line
It may not be my favorite love song of all time, but my boyfriend and I have an adorable relationship with it's own brand of silliness. He is in finance and not in theatre, and for his birthday this past year, I wanted to give him a present that would sum up our relationship, so I recorded Heisler and Goldrich's "There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do" as a solo at Speakersonic Studios in Brooklyn. I hired a full band and we jammed out on my little untraditional, but completely full of "love" song.
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Fun Home
"Say it Somehow" from Light in the Piazza. This is one of my favorite love songs. Love transcends language and I'm a sucker for a lovey duet.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
My favorite love song on Broadway is "Satisfied" from Hamilton. The song immediately made my heart weep. The setting takes place at Hamilton and Eliza's wedding reception. In the middle of Angelica's toast, she begins to reminisce on her secret love and feelings for Hamilton. She wanted Hamilton from the moment she laid eyes on him BUT she saw Eliza loved him as well. Her love for her younger sister is so strong that she lets her have Hamilton. Angelica's main focus is to protect her sisters, even if it means she can never be with the love of her life. Satisfied is beautiful. Renee Goldberry's voice mixed with the music is almost haunting. Her rap game is also on point! I don't know how anyone could listen to these lyrics without getting chills!
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Fiddler on the Roof | The Glass Menagerie
"No One Else" from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. I thought it was such an exciting new musical and I remember leaving the theater thinking, “Wow, I would love for someone to sing that song to me!” Hah!
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Something Rotten | Wicked | Gypsy | Into the Woods
My favorite love song is currently "It All Fades Away" from Jason Robert Brown's The Bridges of Madison County with Andrew Samonsky singing the sh*t out of it.... to meeeeeee.
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The Robber Bridegroom | Act One | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Ghost the Musical | Sister Act
“When I First Saw You” from Dreamgirls
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The Robber Bridegroom
"Sweet Time" from Raisin: The Musical
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American Psycho
"Gold" from Once. While the lyrics are beautiful, what sets it apart from other love songs is the orchestration behind it. Musically, as a whole, it comes together to make the perfect love song.
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Something Rotten! | Big Fish | Catch Me If You Can
"Kiss The Girl" from The Little Mermaid, as the melody of the song is just JOY to me and reminds me of falling in love with someone for the first time – AND it includes the beach and the margarita!!!
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
"A Whole New World" from the musical Aladdin is my favorite Broadway song.
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The Woodsman
My favorite Broadway love song is “So in Love” by Cole Porter. When I was 9 years old I saw the Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate with Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell. They play two people in love who can’t seem to figure it out. They both sing this song (she in act 1, he in act 2) but only once the other person has left the stage. I remember my nine year old brain wrestling with the thought, “love is…complicated?!" To this day, I feel that “So In Love" is the most perfect expression how powerful, consuming, and humbling love is.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
One of my favorite Broadway love songs is "Happiness" from Stephen Sondheim's Passion.
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Tuck Everlasting | A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder | Nice Work If You Can Get It | A Tale of Two Cities
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. The moment the bombshell realizes she is in love with the misfit. A great song from a great show and so fulfilling to sing because it is written so well!
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American Psycho | Evita | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
"Falling Slowly" from Once. The simple, yet profoundly human poetry; that acoustic guitar; the melody that seeps through pores into veins, and drips through places in your heart you may have never known were cracking or already broken.
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Hamilton | Matilda The Musical
"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last 5 Years...not only is it a gorgeous song, but it's the only song in The Last 5 Years where the stories come together. I have never seen this show live, but it always leaves me close to tears when I listen to the album.
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Something Rotten! | Aladdin
“Without You” from Rent. I love that song because it really gets to the heart of how you feel when you’re madly in love with someone. When I did that show, I would listen to it and cry.
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Trip of Love | Mamma Mia!
My favorite Broadway love song is "With Every Breath I Take" from the musical City of Angels, it is just heart-breakingly beautiful. Written by Cy Coleman and David Zippel WHAT A PAIR!!!!!
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Fiddler on the Roof
My favorite Broadway love song is "Selective Memory" from People in the Picture. The score is by Mike Stoller and Artie Butler. It is a gorgeous and complex love story sung by a woman, now older, whose short term memory is going, but her long term memory, that of her deepest truest love is inextinguishable.
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American Psycho | Rock of Ages
"Can't Fight this Feeling" from Rock of Ages. Its sentimental, loving, and hilarious all in one.

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