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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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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
That is very easy! My favorite love song is "Good Thing Going" from Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along.
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Creative
High Society | Triumph of Love | Jelly's Last Jam | Working
My favorite by far is "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. The whole 'bench scene' is so beautifully written -- so evocative of the first, tentative moments of a new love. "If" I loved you.....easier to say because it doesn't expose one in the same way "I am attracted to you" does. The melody is meltingly beautiful, and the lyric--perfect. Wish I had written it!
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The View Upstairs
"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.
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A Night with Janis Joplin | The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
"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.
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Now.Here.This. | [title of show]
What More Can I Say" from Falsettos. This song captures the unbelievable wonder of being in love. Yum. And also "Fable" from The Light in the Piazza. There's a longing in that song that makes my heart swell. I told Victoria Clark that I like to listen to it when I'm doing housework--it elevates my mundane chores and even makes toilet-scrubbing a loving act. Sincerely.
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Falsettos | Godspell | Glory Days
"Marriage Proposal" from Falsettos because it's Mendel's song and it's really good, it's great.
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Murder for Two
"Never Before, Never Again" from The Muppet Movie. Okay, not technically a Broadway song, but still- a fantastic love song from a brilliant movie musical. Also one of the most romantic sequences in film history and one of Miss Piggy's greatest performances (in a long list of great performances). If this song doesn't make you want to find a Kermit of your own, nothing will! Happy Valentine's Day, everybody!
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
"Maria" from West Side Story.
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
My favorite love song from Broadway is from HIGH SOCIETY, 'True Love.' It's also a favorite of my father-in-law, who is 86 years old!!
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Suffs
"Something Good"! This song makes me tear up pretty much immediately. Perhaps it's the tender vocals, the romantic gazebo scene from the movie, the complicated lyrics –– or frankly, all of the above! –– that makes this my absolute favorite. Now go watch and listen to the film version with Christopher Plummer's original vocals: it's stunning!
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Industry
Orchestrator / Arranger / Musical Director: La Cage aux Folles | Thoroughly Modern Millie | The Producers | Sugar Babies | Sondheim at the Kennedy Center | They're Playing Our Song
"I Have a Love" from WEST SIDE STORY. Why? Listen to the lyric - "love him...right or wrong." It's a brilliant piece of writing. My favorite movie song is "The More I See You," Harry Warren - "The more I see you...the more I want you..."
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Cabaret | Slave Play | Long Day's Journey Into Night
I am thinking a lot about Sweet Charity right now. That show makes me think a lot about love- about hopelessly romantic love.
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Something Rotten! | The Addams Family | The Little Mermaid | [title of show] | Now.Here.This.
This is a no-brainer. "Love to Me" from The Light in the Piazza, but the version that really throws me over the edge is Adam Guettel singing it himself. (I think it was a demo version that they added to the end of the original cast album. Sort of a bonus track...) There's something so sexy and real about his voice and then knowing that he actually wrote the song just wipes me out. I think every girl wishes she had a boy that felt like that about her.
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Rock of Ages | South Pacific
There are two Broadway love songs that tickle my fancy; first, I would have to say is “The Origin of Love” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I just really love the idea of having ‘another half’ out there that we are each destined to find and rejoin. Second, I would have to say “I'd F*ck Me” from Silence! The Musical– let's face it, I've been working out, and I look good.. not Andrew Samonsky good, but still pretty good, so...
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Hairspray
My favorite Broadway Love song is "So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate. I love it because I love Cole Porter’s music and I played Kate in a high school production of Kiss Me Kate and singing "So In Love" made me feel so full of emotion and true love.
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One Day
One of my favorite love songs from a musical is "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" from Beautiful. I have loved this song for a while, long before it was in the show. But the fact that it is now in such a gorgeous and heartfelt production, gives the song so much more context. This song has been one of my go-to's in terms of grasping inspiration for my own songwriting. Carole King is truly amazing and the hook "will you still love me tomorrow?" tugs at my heartstrings every time.
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Murder for Two | Urban Cowboy | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Into the Woods
Adam Guettel's score is filled with some of the most rapturous music I've ever heard, and "Say It Somehow" is when the two young lovers first get together. When they start harmonizing, my head practically explodes.
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Beardo
It doesn't get much better than “They Say It's Wonderful” from Annie Get Your Gun. The slight melodic changes on the repetitions of "wonderful" melt me. Also a great shower song.
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JERSEY BOYS
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL
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Chicago
"A Little Priest" (from Sweeney Todd, by Stephen Sondheim) may be my favorite love song from musical theatre. While not discussing love at all, it is the moment when Sweeney sees Mrs. Lovett in a "positive" light for the first time, and she wins what she believes to be his affection. The fact that it condenses the entire world-view of the show, as well as being a defining plot point, is what makes it, for me, an incredible love song. Also, I enjoy morbid jokes that rhyme a lot.
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Industry
Co-Founder | BONEAU/BRYAN-BROWN PR
My favorite is "More Than You Know" from a little known musical GREAT DAY in 1929. My favorite song. Period. Simple, heartfelt, and it has been my favorite song forever. Even as a little kid, I loved it. I love two other "know" songs: "You'll Never Know" (not from a Broadway show) and "I'll Know" from GUYS AND DOLLS. But I love the other one MORE!
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Dear Evan Hansen | Cruel Intentions: The Musical | Spring Awakening | Brooklynite
"The One I Love" from Hello Again because it is perfect.
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Suffs
"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years. You have this two-hander where the couple doesn’t interact; they’re not even moving in a linear timeline, but then, for ten minutes, they come together and we get to see them have this cathartic, honest, gorgeous moment that helps us to understand how it once worked before time, lies, and life warped everything. Oh gosh, and that moment of counterpart at the end right before they finally and at long last harmonize is so expertly and heartbreakingly crafted, and it lingers just long enough before we are once again literally sent off in different directions. 10/10 minutes, without question.
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On Sugarland
A favorite mine would be “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from The Lion King. Being a 90’s baby myself, it evokes such nostalgia from the movie. I don’t think you can hit the nail on the head more than this one.
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Grease | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers | Feinsteins
I've gotta go with two. "My Funny Valentine" because it's got killer lyrics - "My funny valentine/Sweet comic valentine/You make me smile with my heart/ Your looks are laughable/Unphotographable/Yet you're my favorite work of art." Come on!! Then, "Some Enchanted Evening," because it is a great romantic song, but also because when I opened in a run of SOUTH PACIFIC, my husband sent me a beautiful watercolor he had painted of a sunset with the words "Once you have found her, never let her go" written across the sky....now that's romantic!
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School of Rock | Kinky Boots
My favorite Braodway love song is "Love to Me" by Adam Guettel.
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The Confession of Lily Dare
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. Because that song is a real “every person” song that speaks to the romance of the common man but elevated it musically to something divine.
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The Lost Boys | Hadestown | The Who's Tommy
I'm gonna go classic. One of my favorite songs to sing is "My Funny Valentine". Sometimes I sing the lyrics and I'm like... 'That's that's really rude!' I would never say this is somebody I love... but I love that song.
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Long Day's Journey Into Night | The Play That Goes Wrong
I am admittedly not very well-versed in Broadway musicals, but I know my Motown! I love "My Girl" from Ain't Too Proud. You can't go wrong with the Temptations.
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Other World | Now. Here. This. | [title of show]
"The Light in the Piazza" from The Light in the Piazza. The concept of having a complete metaphor for what love is and moving through life and arriving at all of the adventures and love that you experience, wrapped up in something so big and simultaneously teeny tiny and specific... I can barely talk about it without bursting into tears.

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