My choice is: "A Quiet Thing" by Kander & Ebb, I think from Flora The Red Menace. Because when we grow up and allow ourselves to embrace an adult concept of love - it's complex but simple, terrifying but empowering, focused, awesome, quiet...

"What More Can I Say" from FALSETTOLAND. There are so many that I love, off the top of my head I picked that one because it's not conventional...or corny.

1. "Some Other Time" from ON THE TOWN - is the most poignant and never fails to move me to tears (and I've heard and sung it a lot!) The music is so beautiful - aching and sweet and the lyrics are so specific, eloquent and profound : e.g. "this day was just a token too many words are still unspoken oh well.. we'll catch up some other time haven't had time to wake up seeing you there without your make-up oh well... we'll catch up some other time...." etc etc etc. ! ! 2. Any love song sung by Barbara Cook! most especially, the exquisite "In Buddy's Eyes" and "Mister Snow" 3. "Joanna" from SWEENEY TODD Happy Valentine's Day!

Alright, this might sound weird coming from me, but I think the most romantic song in MT would have to be "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver. It is simply splendiferous!! Whenever someone gives me those little butterflies in my stomach, I usually sing this song ... except I just change the he to a she!

"Too Many Mornings" from FOLLIES. The thought of a great lost love kills/is killing me even as I write this.

I picked five of my favorite songs, because each represents a different aspect of love. "My Heart Stood Still" (Rodgers and Hart) for the suddenness of love; "If I Loved You" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) for imagined love; "Here I'll Stay" (Lerner and Weill) for the solidity of love; "It Never Was You" (Kurt Weill) for the after love; "A Quiet Thing" (Kander and Ebb) for unexpected love and "Ill Be Seeing You" (Pop song) for the permanence of love."

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!

I'd have to say "OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY" is my favorite romantic song. It was Cathy and my wedding song and represents a beautiful marriage between music and lyrics. Also, knowing it was the last song George Gershwin wrote before he died gives the song an added poignancy. Ira was writing of his love for his brother and the hope that George's legacy would survive the test of time. Thanks to their brilliance, it's a timeless song.

That is a tough one. There are so many. I don't know if some of these were written for Broadway but, "Always", "I'll Be Seeing You", "So In Love" etc... are on the list and I'm sure there will be many who would include the same one I would if I were to do something typical. So, I don't know that this is the most romantic song ever written... but it's a newly discovered favorite of mine. Trying to avoid self promotion but... the song "I'll Buy You A Star" from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is quite extraordinary. It's about a guy who loves his girl so much that he can't think of any way to express what she means to him. He wants to promise her riches, ermine and diamonds, but says that nothing on this earth would be good enough for her. So he'll have to do his shopping up in the dark-blue night sky. He'll buy her a star, but not just any star, THE BEST ONE in the sky. He promises a cloud to sleep on and a silver chain made from the rain of a summer afternoon. All these things he'll get for her but won't be happy until he buys the moon. The ultimate symbol of his overwhelming love. I'm a sucker for romantic imagery like this. Dorothy Fields (lyrics) and Arthur Schwartz (music) have captured, beautifully, a man who loves so much that only ethereal imagery would be able to begin to summize his feelings. The Chorus: I'LL BUY YOU A STAR, NOT JUST A STAR, BUT THE BEST ONE IN THE SKY. YOU'LL HAVE A CLOUD TO SLEEP ON, A CLOUD AS LIGHT AS AN ANGELS SIGH. A FINE SILVER CHAIN MADE FROM THE RAIN OF A SUMMER AFTERNOON. I'LL BUY YOU A STAR MY DARLING, BUT I WON'T REST UNTIL I BUY THE MOON.

The most romantic Broadway love song, for me, is "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain-Irving Kahal) from the 1938 short-lived musical RIGHT THIS WAY. Though it was written right before the war, it resonated profoundly for all the Allies during WWII as boys were sent across the Atlantic to fight for the liberation of most of Western Europe from under the yoke of Nazi Germany. Maybe I am mindful of this because we are now a country at war and families are being torn apart. Indeed, I hope I will be seeing all of our soldiers in Iraq home safe and soon. Love to you from GOLDA'S BALCONY at the Wadsworth Theatre (on the grounds of the Veteran's Administration) in Los Angeles...

Depending on how you see 'love song', I would say there is a tie: "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY because the music is a blueprint of unconditional love. Almost like a map that you hear; every lyric and note lead you there. And even thought it's not Broadway (yet), "Midnight Radio" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch because nothing is more romantic than the misfits and the losers finding their other halves. And the guitar in that song always gets me in the mood...

I think Ravel's Bolero is very sexy music, boring, but sexy.

I have to say that my choice for most romantic song comes from the musical version of Faust. The song, "Feels Like Home", was how I first told my boyfriend I loved him. This may sound really sappy and dorky, but we were on the roof of my apartment building one night, and I just started singing it to him...because I was too chicken to just outright tell him how I felt! "A window breaks down a long dark street, and a siren wails in the night. But I'm alright 'cause I have you here with me, and I can almost see through the dark, there's light. If you knew how much this moment means to me, and how long, I've waited for your touch. If you knew how happy you are making me, I never thought I'd love anyone so much."

I feel like I have a favorite love song from every Broadway show, but if I had to pick just one, I guess it would be "Last Night of the World" from MISS SAIGON. One of my favorite memories is of my high school voice teacher playing it for me and telling me how it was the PERFECT love song. He loved it so much, he filled a cassette tape with the song recorded over and over to fill the whole tape. I remember thinking it was kinda silly at the time, but that song really is so beautiful and the saxophone solo in the middle gets me every time!

This is an easy one! It's my favorite song of all time It's BILL from SHOWBOAT...gets me every time. So simple and honest. The melody tugs at your heart and the lyric " I love him because he's ...I don't know. Because he's just my Bill." We don't know why we love who we love ...we just do (take that GEORGE BUSH)

"I'll Be Loving You Always" by Irving Berlin, is my favorite romantic song. I actually sang it to my late husband, Ranald MacDougall, when I proposed to him.

"Timeless to Me". Oh wait. I can't say that. OK - "Married" from CABARET. Why? Because it's so romantic!

I'd have to say my favorite romantic Broadway song, off the top of my head, is 'Some Girls' from Once on This Island. It's a song of love and adoration that comes from the heart while the character is in the circumstance of the confines of tradition and class. 'Daniel' realizes/discovers his love for 'Ti Moune' in how different she is from other women and for being the unique and the simple person she is, meanwhile he is destined to marry someone of his own class that has been arranged since birth. I find it so romantic that in he can sing this love song to her at the same time acknowledging he will not be able to be with her.

My favorite romantic song was written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh and it's called it "It Amazes Me." It's just a perspective of how you come into this world one way, and how somebody can love you so much that you change the perspective of yourself.

We just can't choose one. Our favorites are: "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello Dolly!, "What More Can I Say" from Falsettos, and "I Have Dreamed" from The King and I.

Yikes, the most romantic Broadway love song ever written? Let me think - I never thought about that. It might be "All The Things You Are," Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein. "You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long."

If I Loved You -- because it's written in future tense, full of denial, and sung by two stubborn people who, in the course of the song, actually fall in love .... resistance gone. =) R&H .... masters.

"Sit On My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me"

There are too many to count as my favorites; however, I'd say that Scene One from SOUTH PACIFIC (which includes "Dites-Moi," "Cock-eyed Optimist. " "Twin Soliloquies," and "Some Enchanted Evening") rates right at the top of my list.

My favorite Broadway love song is "I Wish I Were In Love Again" from Babes In Arms. The hilarious lyrics, including "The pulled-out fur/Of cat and cur,/The fine mismating of a him and her... I don't like quiet and I wish I were/In love again", can distract from the real solidity and weight of the music and the song as a whole, especially when it's performed super fast like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney did in the 1948 Rodgers and Hart biopic Words And Music. So I recommend the slower Frank Sinatra version, which sounds wry and battle-scarred and optimistic even in the face of disaster, like love should be.

My favorite broadway love song, "How Could I Ever Know," from THE SECRET GARDEN. (I was fortunate enough to sing this in the National Tour every night when I played the role of Lily.) Why? The idea of being able to reach someone from beyond the grave and comfort them in a time of crisis, mixed in with the notion that great love never dies and has a tangible presence...mmm.

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.

This one has a personal history for me. I actually sang it to my the first serious girlfriend I ever had. The most romantic love song that jumped into my head when I read this question is "Fallin'," by Marvin Hamlisch, from the musical THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG. Why? The song is a confession of love from someone who has a real fear of intimacy and vulnerability, but is finally ready to take a chance with someone and risk being hurt. To me, that is the essence of falling in love and allowing yourself to be in love with someone -- that feeling of someone bringing you such utter joy that you are willing to confront whatever fears you have about life and love to be with him or her.

How to Handle a Woman" from CAMELOT is my all time favorite. It's exactly how my sweetie treats me.