"They Were You" from The Fantasticks

It's "You Matter to Me" from Waitress. It just makes me melt and I think about my husband saying it to me and I love it. It's just such a special song. We all just want to matter to somebody!

I think mine is "All the Wasted Time" from Parade. It's a gorgeous song and I also love how it's not about new love, but about an old love that's been there all along. It makes me cry.

“They Can’t Take That Away From Me”

"Santa Fe" from Rent. I'm a Rent baby. That show meant everything to me as a kid and I still sing that song to myself almost daily.

"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime because it's Audra and that's all you need to know.

I was torn between "One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY and "I'll Cover You" from RENT. They both capture the true essence of being in love with someone, that feeling when nothing else matters and together you can take on anything. Total connection between two people. So I guess my real answer is "The Origin of Love" from HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

My old school fave is "I Wanna Be With You" from Golden Boy and new school fave is "Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. True poetry in the lyrics and thrilling melodies that perfectly encapsulate what it means to be in love.

One of my favorite Broadway love songs would have to be "For Good" from Wicked. As love songs go it doesn't depict the usual love between a man and a woman, but the love between two friends and what they have gone through in life. It shows the meaning of true friendship and of the reality that friendships aren't always easy or smooth, but true friends always come out in the end stronger. On another angle it portrays that even the bad things in life make you who you are whether you like it or not. Plus from the outside people will judge and see black/white, good/evil, or in this case green and white. But no one really knows the depth of any relationship until you look beneath the surface and see it unselfishly. Like true friends they forgive and know that even if they never see each other again, being forgotten is not even a possibility.

"Falling Slowly" from Once. I just remember ugly face crying top to bottom during that show. It might have been where I was relationship-wise at the time, or the performances, or the magic of a foreign love story; but I recall being moved to run home and watch the film that very night to cry all over again. I was humming Falling Slowly for WEEKS.

'Say It Somehow' from The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel

"I'm Not That Girl" from WICKED. I just saw WICKED. I loved that song!

"Heather On the Hill" from Brigadoon. It has to be something by Lerner & Lowe.

"Waitin' for My Dearie" from Brigadoon which is a beautiful, beautiful love song.

"So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate. I love the melody and the sentiment. She's in love no matter what! I just love it.

"First Date / Last Night" from Pasek & Paul's Dogfight The Musical. This song, sung with such ease and humor by Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena always hits me right in the heartstrings, and so expertly captures the over-thinking and second-guessing-yourself-ness that we've all felt on a first date.

First thing that comes to mind is "My Friends" from Sweeney Todd. Sure it's a little dark in context, but it's such a heartbreakingly beautiful melody framing the loving reunion of a man with his life and livelihood.

“Til There Was You' from The Music Man. Like many people I came across this song on the first Beatles album with Paul McCartney singing the lead vocal. Later I listened as my friend Glen Richardson sang it to his wife on their wedding day. A very romantic song!”

My favorite Broadway love song is "I Turned the Corner" from Thoroughly Modern Millie, sung by the incomparable Gavin Creel. Gavin remains one of my dearest friends in the world & I have such wonderful memories of being in the original company of Millie together...one of which was being on as Millie and singing this glorious Act 2 love song whilst dancing on a ledge.

My favorite love song from Broadway was from Rock of Ages: "High Enough" by Night Ranger. Just something about the song made me feel like, "okay it's a love song without all the normal dialogue." I was more like a conversation instead of a "I love you because of this." And it was also a great band.

“Love Will Stand When All Else Falls" from my musical MEMPHIS is still the best lyric that says it all when it comes to LOVE!!!!

My favorite Broadway love song is "Forever Yours" from Once on This Island. It is stunning and has an unexpected ending like love often can

"Too Many Mornings" from Follies. Few of us could claim to have spent thousands of mornings yearning to wake up to the one they love. But all of us could claim to have, at some time in our lives, spent too many. A heartbreakingly beautiful love song.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Forever Yours," from Once On This Island. It's such a wonderful expression of the power and timelessness of true love. Not to mention the fact that the story of star crossed lovers never gets old!

I would have to say that my favorite Broadway love song would have to be When Words Fail from Shrek. It’s not your typical love song, but it is beautiful nonetheless. It gives you a the sense of some cute school yard crush. He is trying so hard not to be awkward and really express himself but can’t find the words. But he knows that no matter what he says (or doesn’t say) she will understand his true intentions. If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof. It's just so good. It's so good because it's two people who have, we've seen them sort of bicker and fight and ignore each other, but as they sink into their chairs, they just ask you that after this long life lived, do you still love me? Oh, gorgeous.

My favorite is "The Human Heart" from Once on This Island. I'm pretty sure that whenever I get married, someone will fabulously sing that song to me. I love that song!

In Big Fish, Kate Baldwin had a song called "I Don't Need a Roof." It makes me emotional just thinking about it. For anyone who hasn't listened to that soundtrack recently, listen to Kate sing the lyric to that Andrew Lippa song, and I'll tell you- if that doesn't make you feel something, you don't have a heart!

I guess "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL would be it for me. Its indirect and hypothetical way of voicing love is so temperamentally right for me. The underlying fear and vulnerability that often accompanies love is beautifully acknowledged by not saying "I love you" but rather "if I loved you." In fact that "if" allows for full expression and articulation of love in all its manifestation. It alerts the object of the "if love" to what signs and behavior to look for as a signfier of that love. To me it is a perfect love song.

Without a doubt, "The Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Stephen Trask’s searing masterpiece lets us know how it all began and places our collective truths right at our feet. ‘I could swear by your expression, that the pain down in your soul, was the same as the one down in mine…’. That sums it all up. Plato couldn’t have said it better.