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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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The Ferryman | Black and Blue
“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!”
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Something Rotten | Elf | Thoroughly Modern Millie
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.
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Rocktopia
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.
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Memphis
“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!!!!
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Little Shop of Horrors
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
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Sunday In The Park With George
"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.
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Tuck Everlasting
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!
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King Kong
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.
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Othello | Camelot | The Inheritance
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.
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Tina | King Kong | Something Rotten! | Kinky Boots
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!
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My Fair Lady | Catch Me If You Can | Big Fish | Wicked | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | The Last Five Years
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!
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Tony Nominee | The Color Purple
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.
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Shucked | The Wedding Singer | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | The Rocky Horror Show | The Lion King
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.
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Forbidden Broadway | Burn the Floor | The Rocky Horror Show
My favorite love songs are "My Time Of Day" and "All The Things You Are.”
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Memphis
"Once Upon a Time" because it's a really sweet song - even though it ends sad.
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Rocktopia
My favorite love song is Gerswhin's "The Man I Love." I learned it when I was about 20 years old, and I was asked to sing it for the late, great Beverly Sills at a dinner party, and I was very nervous. I was told it was her favorite song, and now it's become one my very favorite songs as well.
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Tuck Everlasting | Can-Can
"Last Night Of The World" from Miss Saigon.
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New York City Center Encores!
I'm gonna go very traditionalist and say, "If I Loved You" from Carousel. It's just so sweeping. It's one of my favorite R&H shows. And I love how it sort of teases the like, I'm not saying that I do love you, but maybe I do. It's a musical in itself, that number. It is, and the whole scene, if you do the whole scene, it's like a whole musical. I love you, I love you, too.
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The Lion King
“Elaborate Lives” from Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA.
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Other World | Hatefuck | The Big and the Small
"Light My Candle" from Rent. It was one of the first Broadway musicals I ever saw, and it made a huge impression on me. Michael Grief is a mentor of mine. And in my adolescence I performed that song a few times and that is a fond and cringey memory!
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Puffs
"Tonight" from West Side Story is an absolute classic. "Being Alive" from Company perfectly encapsulates the complexities of love. "When You're Home" from In The Heights is my favorite to dance to. When the orchestration comes in on "One Second and a Million Miles" from The Bridges of Madison County, my heart swells. However, everyone knows the greatest Broadway love story of all time is the one between Sweeney Todd and his razors. Sing "My Friends" to your crush on Valentine's Day and watch them swoon!
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Be More Chill | Groundhog Day | Spring Awakening
"Come Out of the Dumpster" from The Wedding Singer. It just nails it.
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Laugh Whore | Assassins | The Violet Hour | The Tempest | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Sex and the City | Comedian
"Sue Me" from GUYS AND DOLLS.
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President | John Capo Public Relations
"The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened" from Road Show.
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The Heart of Rock and Roll | Spamalot | Falsettos
“Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. It’s such a great song, and what’s not to love about an underdog love story. For me, it’s a song about being seen for who you really are, about seeing what’s been there the whole time, and as they say over and over again, understanding.
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Funny Girl | Rent: Live
“I’ll Cover You” from RENT. A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to be in RENT: LIVE, and every single time I heard “I’ll Cover You” my eyes would just fill with tears. The song is such a perfect declaration of deep, selfless love — “Live in my house, I’ll be your shelter/Just pay me back with 1,000 kisses/ Be my lover and I’ll cover you“ — just so beautiful. And it is, hands down, one of the most romantic songs I have ever heard.
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Falsettos | Bright Star | Cinderella
"Children Will Listen" an unconventional choice, from Into the Woods. *sings* "Careful the things you say, children will listen" Tears every time.
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The Lion King
I sang “Something Good” from The Sound of Music to my wife on our wedding day. I’m still wondering what good I did in my past to deserve her.
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Be More Chill | Dirty Dancing
"Without You" from Rent. It's just beautiful, yearning feeling of loving someone so much, it feels like the world stops without them.
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HAIR
There are so many! Today, I would have to say "One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY and "Our Love Is Here To Stay" by George and Ira Gershwin. Both are brilliantly written and both make my heart melt.

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