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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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Performer
Hedwig and the Angry Inch | How I Met Your Mother | Company | Cabaret | Assassins | Proof | Sweeney Todd
"Love Has Come Of Age" from the JEKYLL & HYDE album with Colm Wilkinson. His voice is phenomimazing! I've always dreamed of that song being sung at my wedding, but only if Colm'll sing it himself. Probably a long shot...
Performer
Funny Girl | Glee | Spring Awakening | Fiddler on the Roof | Les Miserables | Ragtime
"Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza is by far the most romantic Broadway song!
Performer
LIZA'S AT THE PALACE...! | Flora | The Red Menace | Chicago | The Act | The Rink | Victor/Victoria
"A Quiet Thing" from FLORA, THE RED MENACE
Performer
Take Me Out | Modern Family | On the Town | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The most romantic song ever written is "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp", but we are talking BROADWAY so... My favorite song ever written also happens to be the song that I think is the most romantic broadway song ever written: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Rodgers and Hart from PAL JOEY. Ella Fitzgerald's version of it puts me over the moon. I will never get tired of it.
Performer
Sweeney Todd | Sunday in the Park with George | Sylvia | Kinky Boots | Rent | Legally Blonde | Wicked
"Losing My Mind" from FOLLIES. It's a little uncertain, as love so often is!
Performer
Mary Poppins | The Secret Garden | The Music Man | The Sound of Music | Nine | Showboat | The Phantom of the Opera
"All The Things You Are" from VERY WARM FOR MAY, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. For me, it's like the heavens are opening up when I hear that song. And it reminds me of how I feel about Danny.
Performer
Spamalot | Beetlejuice | Sondheim on Sondheim | Legally Blonde | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | Hairspray | Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches
My favorite Broadway Love Song is "One Hand, One Heart" from my favorite Broadway musical, WEST SIDE STORY. I recently sang it at my aunt's wedding - it's a beautiful, simple, love song.
Performer
Wicked | Pippin | I'm Not Rappaport | Fosse | Grind | Jesus Christ Superstar
"My Funny Valentine". What else? It's a beautiful song, beautiful lyrics, and it's about the simple truth of love. Valentine's Day, to me, is every day. And it's not just about the love of a Valentine, it's about the love of spirit. If we can, as a people, all over the world, come to love one another, then the world will be a better place.
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Harmony | Music & Passion | Copacabana
"My Heart Is So Full Of You" by Frank Loesser from the musical THE MOST HAPPY FELLA.
Performer
Grease | Xanadu | Grammy Award-Winning Recording Artist
"Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC
Performer
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Follies | Cabaret | Love Letters | First Impressions | Champagne Complex | John Murray Anderson's Almanac. Commander In Chief. The Sopranos
"Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I. I've always loved it, but I've never sung it.
Performer
Kinky Boots | Newsies | A Catered Affair | La Cage aux Folles | Fiddler on the Roof | Hairspray | Legs Diamond | Torch Song Trilogy
The most romantic love song ever? Simple: "Not a Day Goes By"
Director
NINE | Chicago The Film | Memoirs of a Geisha | Cabaret | Little Me | ...Forum
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from PROMISES, PROMISES, because in the song the two main characters, Fran Kubelik and Chuck Baxter sing about never falling in love again, while they actually do.
Industry
Critic and Columnist | Author
"Warm All Over" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser.
Performer
Heartbreak House | Frozen | The Herbal Bed | The Real Thing
I've got two actually..."Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY and "Till There Was You" from THE MUSIC MAN.
Performer
The Wiz | Maggie Flynn
"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME.
Performer
Guys & Dolls | Spamalot | Don't Quit Your Night Job
"Mea Culpa", cut from SWEENEY TODD. What's more romantic than an old man fantasizing about his adoptive daughter?

I'm sorry, that just made me throw up a little in my mouth.

Honestly though, it would be Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from RED, HOT AND BLUE. The phrase "how strange the change from major to minor" is so beautiful it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time.
Performer
Writer/Director: Camp | Director: 13 | Performer: Baby | Upcoming: Damn Yankees
"Make Our Garden Grow" from CANDIDE. It's not a romantic love song, it's not a starry-eyed love song. It's about the kind of love you earn. The kind you can trust. It's adult and hard-won, and yet ecstatic. With the most passionate, beautiful choral arrangement in the entire theatrical canon.
Performer
Honeymoon in Vegas | The Producers | A View from the Bridge | 'Who's the Boss,' 'Taxi'
"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS
Performer
Road to Mecca | Barnum | The Threepenny Opera | Candide | Me and My Girl | Scapino | ...Joe Egg
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just the best love song - I'm serious!
Industry
CEO Of Blue Note Records
My songs would be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "On the Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY.
Industry
Designer
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!
Performer
Spring Awakening | The Sisters Rosensweig | I'm Not Rappaport
The most romantic song to me is "Tonight" by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
Performer
A Touch of the Poet | The Crucible | South Pacific | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Emmy and Academy Award Winner
"Soliloquy" from CAROUSEL. "My boy Bill..."
Performer
The Prom | Minsky's | The Drowsy Chaperone
I was thinking, wistfully, about London the other day. I don't know why, and my iPod shuffle, which is uncannily in tune with my psyche, served up the perfect compliment to my mood: Vera Lynn singing "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". The song premiered on the London stage in 1940's NEW FACES. It is an unabashedly romantic tale of two people falling in love in Mayfair. There may be more romantic songs out there, but the age of the recording, coupled with the simple imagery and the sound of Vera Lynn's pure soaring voice singing "I know 'cos I was there" - well it gets me every time.
Performer
Sister Act | Dreamgirls | Tarzan | Hairspray
"I Only Have Eyes For You". One of the best songs ever!!!
Performer
From the group Il Divo
"Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY
Creative
Summer of '42 | Party Come Here | Vanities - A New Musical
My first instinct was something a bunch of other people have probably chosen, CAMELOT's "If Ever I Would Leave You;" it just doesn't get any better. But as a contemporary theatre songwriter, I feel like, in the end, I wanna go with some more recent stuff, and my three favorite love duets from the last decade or so are Yazbek's "Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True" (DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS) for its old-school melody and goofy originality, LaChiusa's "People Like Us" (THE WILD PARTY), with its sexy and soulful take on how two lonely, damaged people can connect, and, especially, Hamlisch and Carnelia's "Don't Know Where You Leave Off" (THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS), which has a great lyric hook, endless longing, and in its own jazzy way, soars musically as much as anything since the days of Lerner & Loewe. All incredible, beautiful numbers, which prove they can write 'em like they used to. Here's hoping the most romantic Broadway love songs haven't even been written yet.
Industry
The Siegel Column | Broadway by the Year
"I Wish I Could Forget You" from PASSION.
Performer
Swing! | MAC Award-winning Cabaret Singer | Recording Artist | Song Writer
For someone who sings gorgeous love songs every day of my life, that's a Sophie's Choice kind of question. But at this moment I would answer with "How Deep Is the Ocean" by Irving Berlin, written in 1933 for the Broadway show AS THOUSANDS CHEER. The words and the music are so perfect for each other that they themselves are like two great lovers in the sublime way that they connect. The lyric expresses exactly how I feel when I am with someone I love with all my heart. What makes the song pure genius is that Berlin expresses the deepest love through only questions. Romance is heightened by anticipation, and here, each question makes the listener find each answer. As a side note, I'd like to ask all singers reading this to please resist the temptation to do this song as a crazy upbeat number. It takes all the heart and soul out of it and I want to call the "lyric police" whenever I hear this. When I recorded this classic on my first CD with Mike Renzi at the piano, I had a fantasy that the beauty of the song would touch people so much that it would miraculously become a hit single played on every radio station. It might have happened if we lived in a world where each day was Valentine's Day.

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