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They say that falling in love is wonderful... and doesn't Broadway know it! 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.

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Schmigadoon! | The Shark Is Broken | Spamalot | The Shark Is Broken | Beetlejuice | School of Rock | Matilda | Wicked
One of my favorite songs in general in the musical theater canon that is also a love song is "If I Loved You" from Carousel. Whole bench scene, that entire thing is an opus that I love and will always love.
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Schimgadoon! | The Great Gatsby | First Date | The Toxic Avenger
I love Cole Porter's "True Love" from High Society. It's just beautiful lyrics. If I ever named a boat, it would be called the True Love.
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Schmigadoon! | The Music Man | Moulin Rouge! | Pretty Woman | Bandstand | Something Rotten! | Gigi | On the Town | Chicago
“Somewhere” from West Side Story is my favorite love song because it’s about the possibility of love, even when everything around it feels stacked against you. It’s not a traditionally romantic song, but it speaks to connection, acceptance, and imagining a kinder world. That idea feels especially relevant right now.
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Schimgadoon! | Into the Woods | Cinderella | 9 to 5 | Les Miserables | Avenue Q
I love "Near to You" from Damn Yankees because to me it's so poignant. It's about a husband and a wife, but also somebody who can't say what they really want. And I just think it's really beautiful.
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Schmigadoon! | Dear Evan Hansen | Chicago
Just one love song? Impossible! One per composer maybe! But if I must, I guess I can narrow it down to two. “Without You” from Rent just captures the pain and longing you feel when you can’t be with the one you love, and “All the Wasted Time” from Parade so beautifully expresses the ups and downs and complexities of a long relationship. Musically and lyrically, they’re both gorgeous.
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Schmigadoon! | Heathers | The Heart of Rock and Roll | Wicked
"Maria" from West Side Story. I want a man to yearn for me like that. Oh, that's beautiful. Do you know what I mean? Someone come sing it to me outside my window!
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Schmigadoon! | Water for Elephants | The Prom
My Valentine's Day song would be "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific because I go weak in the knees for a baritone singing that song to me. And I mean, there's something so romantic about that idea of the love at first sight, or at least the moment when you realize, 'Oh no, I found the one.' And I think that song encapsulates that moment better than any other song I've heard.
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Schmigadoon! | Mrs. Doubtfire | Something Rotten! | Big Fish | The Addams Family | Monty Python's Spamalot | The Producers | Jekyll & Hyde | Aspects of Love
"My Friends" from Sweeney Todd because who doesn't love a good razor?!
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The Roommate | Company | War Paint | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Gypsy | Sweeney Todd | Noises Off | Master Class | Anything Goes | Oliver! | Evita
It's not a musical theater song, but "A Case Of You" by Joni Mitchell because it's besotted, it's filled with sex, it's love goo.
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Beaches | Hell's Kitchen | The Bridges of Madison County | Finding Neverland | Wicked | Fiddler on the Roof
This might be because I did Fiddler on the Roof with Danny Burstein, but whenever I got to sing "Do You Love Me?" with him, as hysterical as the song is, it is absolutely rooted in truth of two people who have been together for so long and will never leave each other. I just think it's one of the best written songs, love songs, I really do.
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Once Upon a Mattress | Sweeney Todd | The Music Man | Violet | Anything Goes | Shrek | Little Women | Thoroughly Modern Millie
I'm a big fan of "I Turned the Corner" from Thoroughly Modern Millie. That's a pretty good love song!
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Redwood | Frozen | If/Then | Wicked | Rent
"One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story. That's my favorite!
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Chess | 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!
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Fallen Angels | Days of Wine and Roses | Kiss Me Kate | The King and I | The Bridges of Madison County | South Pacific | The Light in the Piazza
One of them has to be "Love to Me" from The Light in the Piazza. I love it because he didn't know how to say it to her, but he's saying 'I love you because you don't know you're lovable.' It's about deserving love, no matter who you are or what you are and that the person loves you BECAUSE of those things. Who doesn't want to be known for who they truly are?
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Old Friends | Hello Dolly! | Follies | A Little Night Music | Gypsy | Annie Get Your Gun | Into The Woods | Song and Dance | Sunday in the Park with George | Broadway Legend
When I was in Hello, Dolly!, I was so amazed at how beautifully constructed that show is. I think "It Only Takes a Moment" is quite a beautiful love song for Valentine's Day.
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Kinky Boots | Angels in America | Ghetto Superstar | Grease | Five Guys Named Moe | Miss Saigon
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...
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Here Lies Love | Once on This Island | Allegiance | Flower Drum Song | Miss Saigon | Les Miserables
"Maria" from West Side Story. What an ode that is, from a young man who meets this beautiful young woman. Despite the reality of their circumstances, he still finds love. It's gorgeous!
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Chess | Sweeney Todd | Moulin Rouge! | Wicked | Next to Normal | Catch Me If You Can
My favorite Broadway love song is “If I Loved You”. An old one. They don’t call them classics for nothing, folks.
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Nobody Cares | My Fair Lady | Meteor Shower | She Loves Me | Gypsy | The Wedding Singer | The Secret Garden
Well, it's funny because my dad, Sal, his birthday is on Valentine's Day, so we call it "Sal-entine's Day," and his favorite song is "The Impossible Dream."
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Into the Woods | The Cher Show | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Anything Goes | 9 To 5 | The Pirate Queen | Wicked Tour | The Boy From Oz
From the musical theatre canon? It's "If I Loved You" from Carousel. I love it because it's not definite. The actor is thinking of the 'whys' and when the audience listens, they get to be in on the though process... all of the doubts, hope, and possibility of the song. It touches me in a beautiful way.
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The Queen of Versailles | On the Twentieth Century | Promises | Promises | The Apple Tree | Wicked | You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
There are many by Rodgers and Hart that I love. I was in Babes In Arms at the Guthrie and I loved "Everything I've Got Belongs to You." I think it says a lot about who I am. With all of the fights, the good times, bad times, fun times, throwing plates, and crying fits...everything I have is yours. To me, that's true love, though maybe in my twenties I would have chosen a differnt song!
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Punch | Kimberly Akimbo | Gigi | Cinderella | Sister Act | The Light in the Piazza
I have two! "Love to Me" from The Light in the Piazza. That gorgeous lush romantic music by Adam Guettel! The confidence and stillness of Fabrizio as he declares his love for Clara in the early hours of their wedding day! As sung so deliciously by Matthew Morrison, this one is a tear-jerker! Good tears! Also, "Anagram" from Kimberly Akimbo, The surprise of David Lindsay-Abaire’s lyric as Kim and Seth both solve their own puzzles: Seth finds a delightful anagram for Kim’s name, and Kim discovers her true feelings for Seth, as their tender friendship unfolds. The vitality and delight of Jeanine Tesori’s music is so refreshing and real. This song is A JOY to sing every night!
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Days of Wine and Roses | Into the Woods | The Ferryman | Something Rotten | Hamilton | Shrek
One of my favorites is "When I First Saw You from Dreamgirls. When I first saw you, I said Oh my, that's my dream! That sentiment is pure gold.
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Wicked movie | The Color Purple
“Fools Fall in Love” from Smokey Joes Cafe.
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Anything Goes | Wicked | Chicago | Cabaret
My favorite Broadway love song is "If I Loved You" from Carousel.
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Moulin Rouge! | Jagged Little Pill | Anastasia | Wicked | The Bridges of Madison County
One of my favorites is from Sunset Boulevard- "Too Much in Love to Care." It's a big, sweeping love ballad at the end of the show and it takes the audience out of the vibe that the rest of the show lives in. It's really beautiful
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Hamilton | Bring it On | In the Heights | Encores! Merrily We Roll Along
"So In Love" by Cole Porter is the correct answer. Everyone else is wrong.
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Gutenberg! The Musical | Falsettos | The Book of Mormon | Jersey Boys
"If I Loved You" from Carousel. A perfect, perfect love song. Or 'The Next Ten Minutes' from Last Five Years. Also pretty damn perfect.
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Shuffle Along | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Ragtime | Kiss Me Kate | Man of La Mancha | Mail
I love "How Long Has This Been Going On?" from FUNNY FACE. Slightly more than 100 words. Beautiful melody, great simple, spare lyric that says loads about truly falling in love for the first time. One of the most sensual songs ever written. Makes me want to have a cigarette after I sing it. And I don't even smoke!
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Funny Girl | I Can Get It For You Wholesale | Nightclubs | Television | Films | Concerts | Recordings | Director | Activist
The first song that comes to mind is Rodgers & Hammerstein's "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just about the most perfect love song written for the theater. I admire the intelligence of the lyric's premise -- two people each too shy to express their love, so they couch their true feelings in the form of a question, and then pretend it hardly matters...when of course they know it does. With its heart swelling melody, it never ceases to touch people. A few years ago during my last concert tour I loved singing Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way" from NINE. It's about those kinds of relationships where love isn't easily defined.

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