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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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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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SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK
"What Do Get When You Fall In Love" from PROMISES PROMISES
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SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK
I don't know too many broadway songs..."All the Things You Are" has always been a favorite....but I'd love to say this year, "If the World Should End" in SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK
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Hand to God
It's old school, but "Something Good," from The Sound of Music slays me. Seeing Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer together as a pre teen woke something up in me. Just like Maria, I couldn't resist the captain. It sounds so pure and chaste, but there's an underlying sensuality in that song that still makes me weak in the knees. But then again, nothing captures that free falling feeling of love like, "Changing My Major," in Fun Home. Oh, Joan. May we all have a Joan at least once......
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Come From Away
My favorite Broadway love song is "Till There Was You" from The Music Man. Not only is the music of the song just plain beautiful, but the way it perfectly expresses the changes love has made in Harold and Marian's life is magical. Well played, Mr. Willson.
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Hands on a Hardbody | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Hair
"This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific. Exquisite melody, timeless lyric, and written for a baritone!
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Billy Elliot | Ghost | Kinky Boots | Fiddler on the Roof
For sure "Unchained Melody," which is totally a Broadway love song thanks to Ghost The Musical! Also, I was in it for the 2.5 seconds it ran on Broadway, so I'm partial.
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Bandstand | Cinderlla
"Heather on the Hill" from Brigadoon. It's so first date/cute/ flirty...Imagine meeting someone at a bar and being like "All the clouds are holding still, so take my hand and let's go roaming through the heather on the hill.” I think you'd get a second date.
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The Fantasticks | Seussical
I don't really have a favorite Broadway love song because there are so many great ones! Here are a few of my favorites: “On My Own” from Les Miserables, “Seasons Of Love” from Rent, “Sun And Moon” from Miss Saigon, “As Long As You’re Mine” from Wicked, “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific, “What I Did For Love” from A Chorus Line, “All I Ask Of You” from The Phantom of the Opera, “One Hand One Heart” from West Side Story and of course anything from The Fantasticks.
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Recording Artist | Producer | Jim Caruso's Cast Party at Birdland
My Favorite Broadway Love Song changes every fifteen minutes. At this very moment, I can't get enough of Adam Guettel's recording of "Love to Me" from his brilliant The Light In The Piazza. I've been known to play it obsessively. The song is pure poetry, with the most perfect, touching melody. I like to tell myself that if I could write songs, they'd be just like Adam's.
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Beetlejuice | Lazarus | Blackbird | The Nether
There are so many love songs! I think “Falling Slowly,” from ONCE is an obvious choice. I truly love it because the lyrics are so poetic, and I feel that the vocals are less traditional musical theater, which feels more relatable. The lush orchestrations with simple piano and guitar give me that lovey feeling!
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Hands on a Hardbody | Hair
"Times Like This" from the musical LUCKY STIFF. This song truthfully talks about real love. Dogs (or pets) are unconditional love. I mean, this is the real deal, dudes. LOVE!!!!
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Casting Director | Upcoming Broadway Musicals Fat Camp and White Noise; Resident Casting Director | New York Musical Theatre Festival
I guess this will have to be a four-way tie, and even that feels like an unjust solution to such a difficult question! But “People Will Say We’re In Love” from OKLAHOMA! is probably the first Broadway song I ever knew: it was my grandfather’s favorite, my mom’s, and it’s mine. It just captures everything. Also in the Hammerstein canon, I’ve always thought that “Where’s The Mate For Me?” which Ravenal sings leading into “Make Believe” in SHOW BOAT has to be one of the most glorious and romantic lyrics ever written. But how can I ignore “Will He Like Me?” from SHE LOVES ME – Bock and Harnick at their finest, and if that’s not saying something, then I don’t know what would. Anytime someone sings it I just get lost in the incredible yearning and hopefulness, and the perfect marriage of words and music. And certainly, no list would be complete without the entire score to THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, but particularly “Love To Me.”
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Waitress | If/Then | Catch Me If You Can
My favorite Broadway love song is "Til There Was You." My wife and I were fortunate enough to have Kelli and Emily Firth sing and play a beautiful arrangement they’d done of it at our wedding last summer. It was stunning, and will always be one of the many highlights of the day. Simple, beautiful lyrics, and a gorgeous melody!

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