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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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Paramour
My favorite song that is a Broadway love song is “Memory” because I’m real sad, and I love a sad broad moment, thank you.
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Flashdance | Anna Karenina
"With You" from Baby.
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Dancin'
I’d have to say “You Outta Be Here With Me” from Big River. My mom introduced me to this show when I was a kid, we would sing it from top to bottom for years. Anytime I miss my mom, a friend, or a lover, I go to this song to pull on my heart strings.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Caren Jones | The Book of Mormon | Big River
My favorite would have to be "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from
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Next to Normal | Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark | American Psycho
"The Next Ten Minutes" from THE LAST FIVE YEARS
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Porgy & Bess | Anything Goes | Promises | Promises | Les Miserables | Lestat | Nine | Aida
My choice for most romantic Broadway song ever is "One Hand, One Heart." It was sung at my wedding
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Rock of Ages | Cymbeline | The Coast of Utopia
'Love Song'from Pippin.
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Puffs
"’If I Loved You," from Carousel. It's such a tough love story, but that song is so clear and beautiful. It pops into my head all the time, whether I want it to or not. It sort of speaks perfectly to wanting to tell someone how you feel, and that moment right before you jump of the cliff. Gorgeous melody!
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Side Show | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | A Little Night Music | Curtains | Grey Gardens
I love "The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years. You never know what tomorrow brings, but you just have to stay present.
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Call Me Madam | Violet | A Little Night Music
"I Concentrate On You" from Silk Stockings. The lyrics are gorgeous. It's kind of melancholy but also hopeful.
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Aladdin | Disaster!
There are so many Broadway love songs that I love, but I have to especially suggest from GUYS AND DOLLS, "I've Never Been In Love Before." It was my favorite song when I played "Sky Masterson" for 6 months in Las Vegas (1977). I also love Barbra Streisand's recording of the same. It suggests love is fresh and new and intoxicating!
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Once
It is a tossup between Little Texas "My Love," Augustana's "Steal Your Heart" or Coldplay's "Fix You."
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Bronx Bombers | Lombardi | Sex and Longing
My favorite Broadway love song is "All I Ask of You." Mostly because it's a song about being a stalker and somehow, in the 80's, stalking was romantic.
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
Well this may be a perverse choice for a love song, but it'll break the mood of all the schmaltzy stuff! "I Do Not Love You" by Antony Newley and Leslie Bricusse from The Good Old Bad Old Days. I was amazed when I first heard it. I guess we could imagine Henry VIII singing it to Anne Boleyn?
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Trip of Love
My favorite Broadway love song is “Without You” from Rent. The entirety of the song she speaks about how the world keeps spinning regardless of his presence, but HER world is still nothing without him. To have someone shake your life in such a great way- must be magical.
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In the Heights | La Cage Aux Folles | The Boys in the Band
"Will He Like Me" from SHE LOVES ME
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Hadestown | The Wiz | Aint Misbehavin' | The Full Monty | Impressionism
My favorite Broadway love song is "Home" from the score of THE WIZ. It is composer Charlie Small's compelling lyric about everyone's first love: "When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing." Happy Valentine's Day.
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Sweeney Todd | Diana | Kinky Boots | Carrie
"Something Good" - The Sound of Music. Because, to the state the obvious…. the lyrics, the melody and Julie Andrews’ voice. But I also love the simplicity of the song. It’s such a beautiful sentiment and it’s interpreted effortlessly.
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American Psycho | Shows for Days | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Cymbeline | Mamma Mia!
"Hey There" from The Pajama Game. I am pretty sure it was the first love song that I ever sang in public while I was a camper at French Woods. I love the melody and the simplicity of the song. The words have stuck with me since I first heard them. Also, it was recorded by Sammy Davis Jr., Rosemary Clooney and Sam Cooke. All of their interpretations are very different but equally incredible. It goes out to anyone still singing love songs to themselves this Valentine's Day.
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Big River
"If I Loved You" is my favorite love song. I ust find it so incredibly moving and so fragile and strong at the same time.
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Schmigadoon | Yellow Face | Some Like It Hot | Peter and the Starcatcher | Little Shop of Horrors | Rocky |
We keep talking about Sweeney Todd and there's not a lot of real Valentine's Day songs... but if you took away the context, I think "Pretty Women" is a beautiful, beautiful Valentine's Day song. Just out of context, perhaps.
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White Christmas | The Producers | Dream | How To Succeed... | CATS
Previously I said "If I Loved You." But I'll pick a new one this year. I'm going to say, "Unlikely Lovers" from Falsettos. This never fails to get me choked up. The harmonies at the end sound like what I think love feels like. And the lyrics are romantic yet grounded in reality. Mr. Finn nailed it on that one.
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On the Town | Betrayal | The Nance | Hairspray | Into the Woods
I love "You're Timeless to Me" from Hairspray. (In another decade Sinatra and Ella would have recorded it and it would be a standard.) But the song/scene "What Would I Do?" from Falsettos though it's deeply sad is so beautiful in expressing love. And for breaking up there is NOTHING that comes close to "We Do Not Belong Together" from Sunday in the Park with George.
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Ohio State Murders | Old Man & The Pool | The Piano Lesson | Death of a Salesman | Leopoldstadt
My favorite song is ”Time” (lyric by Barry Kleinbort and music by Joseph Thalken) about remembering a great love. Since I don’t have a great love currently in my life, I will settle for the memory of one. On Valentine’s Day, I believe that thought is universal.
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Man of La Mancha | Rooms | Jacques Brel Returns
I have said this in the past, and it will stay true; 'Maria' or 'Tonight,' from my beloved West Side Story. There is not a moment I have ever heard these songs, watching from the wings (waiting to enter for America!) that my heart doesn't soar and ache with the sheer beauty of the majesty of the expression of the moment those songs illuminate.
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Funny Girl | Wonderful Town
Jule Styne and Comden and Green’s "Make Someone Happy" is my all time favorite love song. It’s so simple and it makes me cry. “Make someone happy, make just one someone happy, and you will be happy too.” I mean, come on!
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Company | Emojiland | Aladdin
I think what's so great about Sondheim is he's able to show such a spectrum of emotions, specifically with love. And one of my favorite love songs is "Sorry Grateful" from Company, because it is such a realistic depiction of relationships and of marriage. I saw the musical before I was married, and now I'm married. And it has even more of a power in my life, because it is. You're both sorry and grateful at all times. And both are love.
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You Can't Take It With You | Clybourne Park
"I'm Not At All in Love" from The Pajama Game. It's just funny to me!
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Comic Legend
"The Nearness of You. I love the words and the melody. Very romantic."
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Sunset Boulevard | Ghost | Legally Blonde
My favorite Broadway love song is "Too Much In Love To Care." It's a little bit more complicated than you're average love song and I love singing it.

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