"Losing My Mind" from Follies.

I love "Brown-Legged Woman" from Color Purple because we sang that song together when [my wife and I] first started working with each other. So that's my favorite Broadway love song because I made her fall in love during that song. You know what I mean? It worked out!

"Baptize Me" from The Book of Mormon

"Somewhere" from West Side Story. The first two notes create a minor seventh- you can feel the heartbreaking reach for the octave that never makes it. The lyrics are honest and innocent- "peace and quiet and open air," "we'll find a new way of living, we'll find a way of forgiving"- that dream up an imaginary "somewhere" where their love can be fully alive. It's the glimmer of hope you achingly hold onto, hoping this time the story will end differently, knowing too well how it ends.

"Till There Was You" from THE MUSIC MAN. Paul Mcartney thinks so too!

My favorite Broadway love song is "Maria" because it's perfect. It's from West Side Story. 'Nuff said.

I love "My Eyes Adored You" from Jersey Boys. Beautiful song. I always loved that song. Even before I ever did the show. My Eyes Adored You would probably be number one.

I think "If Ever I Would Leave You" is to me the quintessential love song. Especially, you can take it out of context- but within that context, I just think it covers all the bases.

I can't wipe the smile off my face during "People Will Say We're In Love" from Oklahoma!. Those repeated denials and sly teases. . . They may say it ain't so, but the audience clearly sees two people who are absolutely perfect for one another.

I'd have to say, "On the Street Where You Live". The idea that you can be so obsessed and enraptured with someone that you're happy just being near a place that that love of your life may possibly be? Seems like the ultimate love to me.

"Sunrise, Sunset," written by my brother-in-law. It is a love song for everybody, isn't it? It's what jumped to my mind. There were some songs in Follies but I really have to think about that. Then we had a song in Company, "Sorry/Grateful." That's a great song.

My pick would have to be “What About Love?” From The Color Purple. This song celebrates the side of love that you don’t always recognize. The realization that the idea of “love” in your head is not at all what you’re feeling is very relatable to anyone discovering a love of anything.

I imagine we all have many favorites, but the first Broadway show I saw was the 1957 Bells Are Ringing and although one could certainly choose “The Party's Over” or “Just In Time” from that wonderful score, it's the beautiful “Long Before I Knew You” that has stayed with me.

For me, it's a tie:"One Hand, One Heart" and "Somewhere" from West Side Story. Both of them beautifully convey the innocence of First Love, and the bittersweet dream of a world where that love may live freely. They're tied with "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver! Love may be fleeting, but Hot Sausages and Mustard are forever.

My favorite Broadway love song is "My Friends" from Sweeney Todd. I want someone to look at me like Sweeney looks at razor blades.

My favorite Broadway love song is "One Second and a Million Miles" from The Bridges of Madison County, specifically sung by Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara. It's so gorgeous and so romantic. Happy Valentine's Day!

My favorite love song is “The I Love You Song” from my Broadway debut, Spelling Bee. It’s just a beautiful song. It’s a beautiful song with a beautiful family, and Bill Finn who wrote the music and did the lyrics, there’s such a touching story of love within a family.

My favorite Broadway love song from the moment I first heard it is “All I Ask Of You” from Phantom of the Opera. No snarky irony. I love Phantom. When I was a teen, Phantom really spoke to me. The lyrics helped teach me how to express love. Even now the music transports me. There are several other top love song candidates in Phantom, but the sentiment expressed in the duet between Christine and Raoul of just needing to be together is simple, timeless, and perfect.

There are so many incredible songs to choose from, but instantly my mind went to "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle. Something about the strength love gives us, how that moment of connection with another person can create stability at moments when the world around you seems to be going truly crazy. And how that can help one believe in oneself even once that moment of connection is over: "Being sure enough of you made me sure enough of me."

"Being Alive" from Company. While not a love song in the traditional sense, "Being Alive" works through, in a most quintessentially "Sondheim" manner, the journey that one must take in order to be able to both give and receive love. The conclusion, that "alone is alone, not alive," and the final plea: "somebody crowd me with love, somebody force me to care..." shows us at our most vulnerable. And that is very romantic.

“If I Loved You” from Carousel is so classic. I love that doesn't come right out and get the point. Billy and Julie both flirt with the possibility of hooking up and maybe a life together and they essentially commit without without ever saying it. Also “Her Face” from Carnival has one of the most beautiful melodies.

"All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera. Since I was a little kid I would belt it out! I was a little kid and my sister and I recreated The Phantom of the Opera in the living room when we were like seven years old. And I had to play both The Phantom and Raoul. It was a whole thing!

I'd say "Soon It's Gonna Rain" from The Fantasticks, but that's really Off-Broadway. So, I'll go with” Falling Slowly” from Once. Girl and Guy never even kiss in the show, but they express their yearning for one another through the music they make together. What's more romantic than that?

“If Ever I Would Leave You” from Camelot. Such a simple beautiful melody, such a simple beautiful promise…and by that final season of Spring: A Soaring declaration of (Calendar) love! “Garlic! Garlic!” from Dance of the Vampires runs a close second.

"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "Too Many Mornings" from FOLLIES

"As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver is beautiful but ladies I don't recommend loving a man that way, for the record.

"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. I saw the original production at The Orpheum when I was a kid and made my parents take me back several times. Lee Wilkof was my schmendrick superhero, and how can you not love a song about the little nebbishy Jewish guy finally getting the blonde bombshell?

That is very easy! My favorite love song is "Good Thing Going" from Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.

"Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered"... "Vexed again, perplexed again… thank God I can be oversexed again!" For me, this tune captures the joy and ache of longing perfectly. I particularly love Justin Vernon’s rendition which he recorded with his high school jazz ensemble as a fundraiser for their music program. It knocks my socks off.

"I'd Rather Be Sailing" from A New Brain. I am such a fan of William Finn, Malcom Gets, and especially Norm Lewis, whom I had the honor of working with in both Dreamgirls and Porgy and Bess. This song and their performances are simply sublime.