I'd have to name "Music That Makes Me Dance" as first performed on Broadway in FUNNY GIRL by Barbra Streisand and then even more memorably by Mimi Hines. Great 11:00 number by Jule Styne with Bob Merrill's moving lyrics.

Definitely "How Could I Ever Know", from THE SECRET GARDEN. Such a heart wrenchingly beautiful song of undying love, truly romantic.

It's definitely "Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC. I used to watch the movie everytime it came on television with my father. When Emile sings "And night after night, as strange as it seems, the sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams" I get very weepy. The song really defines the complicated layers of love- how it can completely capture you off guard, and how it can fill you with hope and longing.

Well, let me be a total shill for a second and say that every night I get to hear "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" from JERSEY BOYS(which makes it a showtune, right?, and I fall in love with the song more each night. I love the fact that Bob Gaudio had 3 different songs, took parts of the 3 and made up what we now know as one of the greatest love songs ever written. Nothing beats watching Christopher Jones (who plays Frankie) from the catwalk above and seeing him sing the first line of the song, "You're just too good to be true...," and hearing 1600 people go "ahhhh....." and then break into applause. It gives me goosebumps everytime. As far as the most romantic song written directly for the theatre...I'll never forget when I went to go see BIG, THE MUSICAL. It was the first Broadway show I ever saw, and I remember falling in love with Crista Moore as she sang "One Special Man." I still listen to it all the time. The chord changes in between the verses give me chills, and nothing beats the lryic, "you shake me, astound me, like no one else can." I'm in love just thinking about it. Is that weird?

My favorite love song is "My Heart is So Full of You" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA. It's simple; it's perfect.

My favorite Broadway love song is "It Might As Well Be Spring" from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “State Fair”. To me the song is the perfect marriage of a gorgeous melody and evocative lyrics. I love R&H so much that I actually created whole cabaret called “A Rodgers & Hammerstein Valentine”. Attached is a short clip from the song that I did when I debuted the show (and my R&H album) at 54Below in case their roundup includes any videos.

"Sorry-Grateful." And not JUST because I play that beautiful melody on my flute each night. The words are so honest about REAL love and romance. Relationships are not great all the time, but if it is a true romance it lasts through all the sorry-grateful parts of it. "You're always sorry, you're always grateful, you're always wondering what might have been...then she walks in" just says it all about how that one person can be so irritating and yet integral to your life! THAT is a true romance that lasts!

The song I love around this time of the year. And I think it was Chris Sarandon, my husband, and my first love song together- "My Romance", because the last line is: my romance doesn't need a thing but you.

The most romantic show song would have to be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. First, it's a tease. They're not saying they are in love, but they're not fooling anybody, least of all each other. But, if played properly, the scene with Billy and Julie isn't just a cute opposites-attract kind of romantic moment. You can feel the awesome force of Nature inexorably drawing them together. They're standing beneath these blooming trees and the blossoms are falling all around them. And as Billy and Julie move closer together, they nervously note that there is no breeze to make the flowers fall. She breathes, "It's just their time to." And they're in each other's arms. It's love, it's death, it's love in the face of death, which is what CAROUSEL is all about, and, really, what life is all about. Yow!

"I Couldn’t Be with Anyone but You" in Sheldon Harnick’s and Joe Raposo’s musical version if It’s a Wonderful Life. Sheldon is, hands down, my favorite lyricist, and performing this song is the definition of “speaking on pitch”- it’s so eminently actable- I’m obsessed with it.

To me the most romantic Broadway love song would have to be "Unusual Way" from NINE. It is so moving and beautiful, and it talks about how love has no perfect mold. Happy Valentines Day!

"What More Can I Say?" from FALSETTOS. Bill Finn, who isn't the most sentimental guy I've ever met, wrote the most romantic song imaginable!

My favorite Broadway love song would have to be "Tits and Ass" from A CHORUS LINE for obvious reasons. But a close second is "Dancing Queen" from MAMMA MIA!. it always gets me "that mood" if you know what I mean...

"This Nearly Was Mine" from SOUTH PACIFIC

As a big Ashman/Menken fan, I'm offering up "Suddenly, Seymour" from LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS as deserving a place among the most romantic Broadway songs. This poor schlep of a guy finally finds love by asserting his previously non-existent self-worth as he helps a girl with off-the-charts low self-esteem understand the value of her own inner beauty. And the lyric somehow manages to convey Seymour's tremendous affection for Audrey without making him sound uncharacteristically eloquent or literate. Instead, we're won over by his simple sincerity and his heartfelt pledge of 'sweet understanding.' Awesome.

I would have to say "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle. Not only a heartbreakingly beautiful melody, but it captures the essence of right person/wrong time. Also, "It Never Was You" from Weill's Knickerbocker Holiday. Another ballad of love and longing, beautiful and sad. Another tough year, then.....

My pick for most romantic Broadway love song ever written is "Is It Really Me?" from 110 IN THE SHADE. To me it speaks so beautifully of how being in love can change someone. It can change the way you see yourself, making you suddenly feel beautiful and special.

"All I Ask of You" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Just the aching plea of the song is enough to send shivers through me every time.

You know what, I'm going to say a song that isn't from Broadway - I can't decide between "The Nearness of You" or "What'll I Do?" - they're all very sad...but then again I think it goes back to "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. And a good runner up would be "All The Things You Are".

"And This is My Beloved" from KISMET. Besides Borodin's wonderful melody, the lyrics of Robert Wright and George Forrest subtly, yet passionately, describe the indescribable feeling when one meets one's perfect love.

Unquestionably "Blame It on the Summer Night" from RAGS.

I'm giving you my top 3 because there are different kinds of romantic songs: Melancholy: Unusual Way from NINE- The melody is really lush and haunting and the lyric perfectly describes what it's like to not be able to explain the angst that comes from love. Warm & Tingly: What More Can I Say? from FALSETTOS- sweet and very simple and was the first song in musical theatre that personally spoke to me as a young gay kid who loved showtunes. Uplifting: Listen to My Heart by David Friedman as sung by Nancy LaMott. The most celebratory love song I can think of-you can't help but smile ear-to-ear when you hear Nancy sing it.

It has to be "Love Sneaks In" from DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS. A Valentine song for the more mature man.

I think the most romantic Broadway love song, for me, is "Not While I'm Around" from SWEENEY TODD. Not for what it says, but for what it does not directly say. The act of protecting someone from all things bad is the most primal form of devotion, love---if not in the standard "I love you, you love me" form. Of course the character who sings this song is not in love in the traditional way. But for him, he is experiencing the most strong and raw emotion that he has ever felt. Quirky, I know, but the combination of sweeping melody, with it's rather wide intervals and plaintive simple lyrics make this the most romantic Broadway love song that I can think of. I know this is not a doctoral thesis, but this song of devotion has moved me more than any other.

"With Every Breath I Take" from CITY OF ANGELS. What a way to be thinking of someone you love or lost but still love them. I mean, we breathe every second!

(1950-2007) "My Heart is So Full of You", with music and lyrics and music by Frank Loesser from MOST HAPPY FELLA. It's a duet sung by Tony and Rosabella, from a magnificent score with breathtaking emotional melodies. Their love for one another is bursting with passion, not reflected but immediate and it's full of expression. Forgive me Mr. Loesser, but I think that the lyric went something like this: "my heart is so full of you, there is no room for anything more there" Wow! Come on! This knocks me out. I think that I remember that feeling? Do you? Hope so!! Celebrate your partners! Happy Valentine's Day!

On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady. A valentine to stalkers everywhere. You can just imagine the ski cap and the high powered rifle while you listen to it.

"I Have A Love" from WEST SIDE STORY. Commenting on the perfection of the music in this piece--the flow from the strong to the plaintive and the eventual fusing of the two--would require many paragraphs. But the lyrics are equally perfect, particularly when Maria sings, "I love him; I'm his/ And everything he is/ I am too." It always reminds me of the line in WUTHERING HEIGHTS where Catherine says of Heathcliff: "Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." It isn't about losing one's identity in love; it's about who we love being the ultimate clarifier of who we are.

"Somewhere That's Green (reprise)" - It slays me when Audrey tells Seymour to feed her to the plant so that it will grow and bring him all the wonderful things that he desires. Ah, love. It just doesn't get any more romantic than that.

For me, the most beautiful love song from a Broadway show has to be "My Heart Is So Full Of You" from The Most Happy Fella. I first heard this song sung by the incredible Liz Callaway on the recording "Sibling Revelry", (which, if you don't own, you should go out and buy right now!). I was so taken by the songs' simplistic beauty (and Liz's breathtaking rendition). The song puts forth the notion of loving someone so much that there is no room left in your heart "for anything more...". It's an outrageous concept to anyone with common sense, until they themselves fall in love, and suddenly understand ever word of this beautiful Frank Loesser lullaby.