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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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Conversations with Mother | Relatively Speaking | I Hate Hamlet | Social Security | The Iceman Cometh
It's from Camelot- "If Ever I Would Leave You" it just makes me cry all the time, every time I hear it, and it is about how love endures. It really does, and you know, it's like I've been married a long time, and sometimes I hate my husband, and sometimes I love him, but I'm not leaving him, ever.
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The Play That Goes Wrong
My absolute favorite Broadway love song is Lida Rose from The Music Man. It’s my favorite for two reasons: firstly, The Music Man Original Broadway Cast recording is what I used to listen to in the car with my family on road trips growing up. And secondly, Lida Rose is my valentine’s favorite song as well, so it reminds me of her
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On the Town
"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma!
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Superhero | KPOP | Miss Saigon
"Sun and Moon" from Miss Saigon. It has very special place in my heart because I did Miss Saigon and I've been listening to that song since I was eight years old. It's beautiful and that'll forever be my favorite Broadway love song.
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30 Rock | Celebrity Autobiography | Chicago's The Second City Company Member
"My Friends" from SWEENEY TODD.
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Liberation | Leopoldstadt | All the Way
The most recent love song I heard was from The Notebook, Ingrid Michaelson singing “If This Is Love.” I haven’t seen the musical but I loved her singing that song. I’m more of a break-up song lover, but this one hit me at the right moment.
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West Side Story
My favorite song is by Andres Calamaro and its called "Algo Contigo" (something with you)...a girl dedicated it to me once....AMAZING!
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American Psycho | Lazarus | American Idiot
“The Light in the Piazza” from The Light in the Piazza. The music and orchestrations are insanely romantic and beautiful, and Clara explaining that love is everywhere and rushing through her and all around her is exactly how being in love feels to me!!
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Home
'There are so many beautiful love songs but 'How Could I Ever Know' from THE SECRET GARDEN is one of my favorites. Lucy Simon was a guest composer at 'Monday Nights, New Voices' one month and she told the backstory on how the song was written. She explained that her writing partner, Marsha Norman, was on a turbulent flight one night and, though she tried, she couldn't get a hold of her husband , so she called Lucy and asked her to write down some things she wanted to tell her husband in case some thing happened on the flight. The words to her husband later became the song 'How Could I Ever Know.' The story had a beautiful impact on the audience and myself and changed how I looked and heard that song from then on.
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Producer: Bonnie & Clyde | The Best Man | Grey Gardens | Bridge & Tunnel
"Being Alive" from COMPANY. It isn't about another person, it's about being that person that deserves to be loved...knowing that you are ready and deserving. There's no greater love song!
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Kinky Boots | The Wedding Singer | Wicked | Urban Cowboy | Parade
“Fifty Percent” from Ballroom. It talks of loving someone outside the parameters of a normal relationship. Of loving for the joy of the moment without expectation.
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Liza's At The Palace
It just came to me...."My Romance." For me, it is the most romantic Broadway song and NOT just because it has "romance" in the title. I like the furtiveness of "no hideaway" and of course who can resist "soft guitars?" "My romance doesn't need a thing... but you."
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New York New York | On the Town | Anything Goes | Hairspray | Wicked | Oklahoma!
I grew up shower belting to “I’ll Cover You” from Rent. The undisputed greatest Broadway love song of all time! “Just slip me on, I'll be your blanket, Wherever, whatever I'll be your coat, You'll be my king, and I'll be your castle, No, you be my queen, and I'll be your moat”.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"Think of Me" from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and "As Long As You're Mine" from WICKED
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The Cake | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
"Losing My Mind" from Follies. Which is exactly what I did when I saw Bernadette Peters perform it in 2011. She reduced me to nothing but a puddle and a playbill in the audience of the Kennedy Center.
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Beardo
My favorite Broadway love song is "Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof. My wife and I met during a production of Fiddler on the Roof, I was Motel the Tailor and she was a Russian Dancer. Whenever we hear the song, we both just bawl- because it's simple and honest and isn't afraid to be emotional.
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The Ferryman | The Last Ship | The Producers
"To My Wife" from Franny which I got to sing Elena Shaddow at Encores and it's so moving and so beautiful.
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The Lost Boys | The Queen of Versailles | Maybe Happy Ending | Parade | A Christmas Carol | Once on This Island | Spring Awakening
Probably my favorite Valentine's Day song is "My Funny Valentine." I mean, that Richard Rodgers music... Lorenz Hart lyrics... it's so good. What I love is that it's like a really modern love song. It's a really kind of tempered and honest take about what it means to love someone even though they are flawed.
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A Beautiful Noise | Back to the Future | Funny Girl | Moulin Rouge! | Head Over Heels | Hamilton
It has to be “All I’ve Ever Known” from Hadestown. Moving forward, I believe Anaïs Mitchell must write every long song on Broadway. Oh, and Eva Noblezada is one of my favorite voices to exist.
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The Lion King
Oh wow, how can I pick just one? There are so many beautiful love songs in the Broadway musicals repertoire. But two are pressing on my heart as I write this. "It All Fades Away" from Bridges of Madison County and "Written in the Stars" from Aida - both songs are beautifully written stories of finding, feeling, and experiencing true love and the difficulties of it being forbidden. They definitely tear at your heart.
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PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT
"Take Me or Leave Me" from RENT. I know it's obscure, but far too often do we make provisions for the people/persons in our lives. I believe that authenticity is our greatest asset as humans, and if a person chooses to have you in their life, then they should expect nothing less then the "REAL" you, Under all circumstances. Arguments, disagreements, and sometimes," knock down drag outs", are essential to learning each other. Let's face it, without confrontation there is no solution. Clearly, i'm not the mushy type!!
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Mack & Mabel | Aladdin |
My favorite broadway love song is "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess. It is love for the future... for a child.
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Ain't Too Proud | Beautiful
Favorite Broadway love song would be “When I First Saw You” from Dreamgirls, one of my favorites.
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Leopoldstadt
Most of my favorite love songs are by Rodgers and Hart, but specifically, and especially for Valentine’s Day, I love “My Romance.” Its lyric and melody are both so beautifully crafted, simple, and sentimental, and I love singing it. There is a wonderful, quiet confidence-in-love that drives it. I also love “A Quiet Thing” by Kander and Ebb from Flora the Red Menace for the same reasons.
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First Down | Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
"You're the One That I Want" from Grease the musical - because It's fun, upbeat, and lighthearted.
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All Things Equal: The Life Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
My favorite Broadway love song is actually entitled "Love Song"! When I played Catherine in PIPPIN at NYU, I remember having a huge show crush on my Pippin, and singing these lyrics with him- "sitting on the floor and talking till dawn… trading old beliefs and humming old songs” just hit me as so spot on about the purity of love, what it really feels like when you are sorting through the avalanche emotions between you and another person. I love thinking about this moment even more now as I realize that PIPPIN just had it’s 50th anniversary with the original cast, and also that when playing RBG recently at the Bay Street Theatre, I got to spend a little time with artistic director Scott Schwartz, the powerhouse son of the great Stephen himself!
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A Night with Janis Joplin | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Passing Strange
"Losing My Mind" from Follies.
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The Jonathan Larson Project | Beetlejuice | A Bronx Tale
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!
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Machinal | The Lion King
"Baptize Me" from The Book of Mormon
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Ghost The Musical
"As Time Goes By" written by Herman Hupfeld from the 1931 Broadway musical Everyone's Welcome.

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