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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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Company | The Band's Visit | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | The Miracle Worker
I gotta say, these days it's good old fashioned "Til There Was You" from The Music Man. Its sweet, elegant melody and the simplicity of the lyrics; charming and just a bit melancholy. Sigh, gets me right there. And the little turn around at the end of the bridge into the verse "...and dew.." Mmhmm. Sold.
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Once on This Island | Porgy and Bess | The Little Mermaid | The Phantom of the Opera | Les Misérables
Even though it was a tragic song that I did in Side Show, people keep asking me a lot of times to sing that at weddings, "You Should Be Loved." Also, "The Music of the Night." It's actually a beautiful song. It's a little more sexy than love long. "I Believe My Own Eyes," from Tommy, I mean, come on. There's a lot great stuff that I've been able to sing. Even Miss Saigon, that tragic love story, with "Sun and Moon." It's hard to pick.
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Merrily We Roll Along | Carousel | Significant Other | Wicked | Grease | Godspell
It's not a Broadway love song but it's Barbra Streisand so I feel like it would qualify, which is "The Way We Were." It's so romantic and it's not sappy, there's history to it and then thinking about the way Marvin Hamlisch laid it all out. For me it's the best.
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Funny Girl | Glee | Spring Awakening | Fiddler on the Roof | Les Miserables | Ragtime
"Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza is by far the most romantic Broadway song!
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The Great Gatsby | Hadestown | Miss Saigon
My favorite Broadway love song would absolutely have to be "Freak Like Me". By Patrick Page. And the cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Oh yes.
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Pretty Woman | Legally Blonde | Saturday Night Fever | Footloose | The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Mine would have to be "Our Love Is Here To Stay", not only because Gershwin is unrivaled in sheer genius as far as I'm concerned, but I was lucky enough to have been in the "long" running "Fascinating Rhythm" and listening to my co-stars sing that song every night into the finale' (which was Hang On to me), gave me chills and still brings back some of my best and happiest Broadway memories as a performer...
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Assassins | American Son | Junk | The Robber Bridegroom | The Bridges of Madison County
"Loving You," by Stephen Sondheim, pretty great. "Loving you is not a choice it's who I am," that guy writes good lyrics.
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Company | The Prom | Chicago | Shrek the Musical | Matilda | Pippin
My current Broadway love song is: I just Want to dance with you...from THE PROM ...it’s beautiful and perfect....letting the world melt away with that one special someone...That’s the one!!
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Into the Woods | The Parisian Woman | Amelie | Hamilton | Natasha | Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
"Do You Love Me?" From Fiddler on the Roof. It is one of the scariest things one can ask another person. It is brave and vulnerable. It makes your heart strings pull and your stomach drop. That song shows a different kind of love than the ones we usually see on Broadway. There is something beautiful about how unsatisfying Golde's answers are. But then at the end they say "After 25 years it's nice to know" we have a little glimpse of their deep love for each other. *sigh*
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Hello Dolly! | Dear World | Triumph of Love | Sunset Boulevard | Carrie | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Song & Dance | Cats | Pippin | Promises | Promises | 1776
"You're Nearer" from TOO MANY GIRLS by Rodgers and Hart.
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LIZA'S AT THE PALACE...! | Flora | The Red Menace | Chicago | The Act | The Rink | Victor/Victoria
"A Quiet Thing" from FLORA, THE RED MENACE
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Driving Miss Daisy | The Best Man | A Little Night Music | Blithe Spirit | Deuce | Mame | Sweeney Todd | King & I | Gypsy | Dear World | Anyone Can Whistle
"If I Loved You" from Carousel because it reminds me of my first love...
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Tootsie | Act One | Cinderella | Billy Elliot
"Not While I'm Around." I think it's beautiful. I know it's between more of a mother and son, but the lyrics aren't excessive and I think it's so succinct and beautiful.
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Gutenberg! The Musical | The Book of Mormon | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Anything from Dance of the Vampires.
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Anastasia | Carrie | Mamma Mia!
I really like "You Shine" from Carrie. But I also really love the Gershwin song- "They Can't Take that Away From Me." Life is filled with little moments. I love how the singer celebrates all of the little things that make his love wonderful, regardless of what their future holds. I think that is such a beautiful song.
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The Piano Lesson | The Color Purple
“I Got Love” from Purlie.
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Gypsy | Pictures From Home | Moulin Rouge! | My Fair Lady | Fiddler on the Roof | Cabaret | The Snow Geese | Follies | South Pacific | The Drowsy Chaperone
My favorite Valentine’s Broadway love song is “Some Enchanted Evening” because that’s the way I felt when I first saw my wife.
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Little Shop of Horrors | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | Kinky Boots
My favorite Broadway love song is "The Origin of Love," obviously. I mean, how can it not? It's a beautiful song, it's beautifully written lyrics, it's the perfect song. The perfect love song.
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The Last Five Years | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Annie Get Your Gun | Beauty and the Beast | Les Miserables
"All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera. I love the melodies in the song. I feel like the music compliments the acting and the story line in a truly remarkable way.
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Pictures from Home | Gary | Angels in America | The Nance | The Addams Family | November | The Odd Couple | The Frogs | The Producers | A Funny Thing Happened... | Guys and Dolls | Love! Valour! Compassion!
"Too Many Mornings". It always makes me cry. Missed opportunity, longing and regret, exquisite lyrics and a melody that breaks your heart. That Sondheim kid has a big future.
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Angels in America | The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Fun Home | Ring of Fire
My favorite Broadway love song is Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way" from Nine. It's very haunting and it gets at something really complicated. I feel it very deeply.
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The Visit | West Side Story | Chicago | Kiss of a Spider Woman | Nine | Bye Bye Birdie |
"Only Love" from ZORBA by Kander & Ebb. I love it because of the simplicity of the lyrics and the beautiful melody.
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POTUS | Hey | Look Me Over! | Sondheim on Sondheim | Into the Woods | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Mule Bone | Sarafina!
My favorite Broadway love song is "Where Is Love?" It makes me cry all the time!
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Aladdin | In Transit | Allegiance | Godspell | Pacific Overtures
My current favorite Broadway love song is “We Are Home,” a song written for me and Justin Guarini for In Transit. Love singing it to my sweet show-hubby Justin 8 times a week!
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Hello Dolly! | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Big Fish | Giant | Finian's Rainbow
My favorite Broadway love song is "My Heart is so Full of You" from The Most Happy Fella.
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Take Me Out | Modern Family | On the Town | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The most romantic song ever written is "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp", but we are talking BROADWAY so... My favorite song ever written also happens to be the song that I think is the most romantic broadway song ever written: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Rodgers and Hart from PAL JOEY. Ella Fitzgerald's version of it puts me over the moon. I will never get tired of it.
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Shucked | Once On This Island
It’s a tossup between "My Man" (Funny Girl) and "I Got Love" (Purlie). I love both of these songs for the simplicity of the lyrics in each, and how real they are! They contrast because with "My Man," there's a undertone of triumph in heartbreak and longing, and with "I Got Love," it's literally all about that fresh new love and what emotions are like when it's first starting!
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Mean Girls | KPOP | Sunday in the Park with George | The King and I
Anything from the Rodgers + Hammerstein canon. Most recently, I reheard "Hello Young Lovers" (The King and I) and it made my heart swell, especially: "Be brave young lovers and follow your star. Be brave and faithful and true," to wish goodness and love and togetherness onto others. To pass along happiness and hope to young ones especially: a message we can cling onto today. Isn't that the magic of R + H love songs? Exquisite timelessness.
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Spamalot | Grand Horizons | Torch Song | Buyer and Cellar | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
My favorite Broadway love song is Judy Kuhn singing "A Heart Full of Love" from Les Miserables. I listened to it today and started crying and almost fell off the elliptical.
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Sweeney Todd | Sunday in the Park with George | Sylvia | Kinky Boots | Rent | Legally Blonde | Wicked
"Losing My Mind" from Follies. It's a little uncertain, as love so often is!

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