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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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Machinal
I'm not heavy into many musicals because my singing would make you return your money within four bars; but, I do enjoy "Run Away With Me" from The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown.
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Puffs
The quartet of "Johanna" from the second act of Sweeney Todd will forever remain my favorite love song because it captures so many different types of love simultaneously: the young, idealistic determined love of Antony and Johanna, the paternal/homicidal love of Sweeney, and the love of not being on fire of the Beggar Woman. The fact that this beautiful love song is accompanied by members of the ensemble getting to slide down slides after doing some particularly fun blood-spurt acting is but the whipped cream on the proverbial murder-pie.
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STEW
Frozen’s Love is an Open Door! It’s cute and catchy. A real feel good song about love! What is there not to love?
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Les Miserables | The Producers | Sister Act | Gigi
My favorite: "Some Enchanted Evening." Romance, suspense, and questioning. The perfect way to woo is to do it in third person
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Rock of Ages
How do you pick just one? There was a song from Wonderland called 'Love Begins' that comes to mind. I'm not sure if it made it in to the final version of the show but it was a beautiful song.
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Every Brilliant Thing
"Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch-a, Touch Me" from The Rocky Horror Show.
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Kinky Boots
"Hakuna Matata." I am a romantic but everyone has the romantic song. Why not light some candles, stand in a tux, ask her to dance and then "HAKUNA MATATA- WHAT A WONDERFUL PHRASE!" If she laughs, you're in.
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Groundhog Day | You Can't Take It With You
"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins. Who doesn't want that crazy-eyed ode to obsession and martyrdom playing in the background of her Valentine's Day dinner? But actually, "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide is such a beautiful, simple plea for love and a commitment to a future. It makes my heart swell when I hear it.
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Fade
This might be a bit grim but I think “Married” from Cabaret is one of the most beautiful love songs out there. Its melody and lyrics are so uncomplicated but the message is profound: A dark, despairing existence can change dramatically simply because someone else has chosen to love you and spend their life at your side. I think it’s very powerful.
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Tuck Everlasting | The Phantom of the Opera
When I was about three years old I was in a production of Carousel, and "If I Loved You" has since been my favorite. However, there is a sentimental song in Tuck Everlasting called "Time" that makes me a basket case. Last year I hid under the piano when it was sung during rehearsals so the cast wouldn't know I was sobbing...although if they see this they'll be looking for it once we start back with rehearsals. ;)
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Conversations with Mother | Company | Little Shop of Horrors | War Horse | The Book of Mormon | Bye | Bye | Birdie
I guess this is probably the most cliche one to say, but there's a reason for it. It's kind of like saying Romeo and Juliet when you're asked about Shakespeare. "If I Loved You" from Carousel. It's absolutely perfect. I remember when I was a kid, and my mom was getting me into musical theater, and she knew I was interested in it, and so she brought home all the Rodgers and Hammerstein films, and we watched, of course, Carousel. And as soon as If I Loved You started playing, I remember saying to her at a very young age, 12 years old, I think these are the most beautiful lyrics I've ever heard. They're perfect.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"I Never Has Seen Snow" from HOUSE OF FLOWERS.
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Jersey Boys | Mary Poppins | The Boy from Oz | Oklahoma!
My favorite love song is “The Next Ten Minutes” from The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown. The lyrics are so amazing! I swore I’d never sing that song unless I was singing it with the woman I was going to spend the rest of my life with, and in 2015 I sang it with my then fiancée Desirée Davar. I had tears in my eyes. Now we are married and expecting!
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Hey | Look Me Over! | The Play That Goes Wrong | Assassins
"Someone to Watch Over Me," by the Gershwins. Nowadays everyone's obsessed with being "strong," but this simple ballad cuts right to the fear, vulnerability, and longing that we all feel, ultimately, underneath those proclamations of strength.
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Girl from the North Country
I think my choice would be “If I could tell Her” from Dear Evan Hansen. It’s the first musical my daughter fell in love with, and first song she memorized. I love Hansen’s awkward confession of love for Zoe, using her the memory of her dead brother. I know it’s off beat, but totally comedic and endearing. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Shucked | Ink | Head Over Heels | War Horse
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. They are both coming into their own and realizing their love for each other.
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She Loves Me
"In Buddy's Eyes," from Follies
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Puffs
"I Got Lost In His Arms" from Annie Get Your Gun. Beautiful melody about the vulnerable surrender and indescribable nature of falling in love.
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A Christmas Carol | A Time to Kill | Coram Boy
Adam Guettel's "Hero and Leander" is one of my favorite love songs of all time. It tells the story of the myth of Hero swimming across the river every night to meet his lover and one night in a storm he drowns in the waves. It expresses all of the passion of a true love affair.
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The View Upstairs
"What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line. I love this song for its multiple meanings. It could very well tell the story of a romantic relationship — a person honoring the past, while bravely looking forward to the future. And, at the same time, it tells the story of sacrifice and joy that artists make as they pursue a life in the theatre. … and also, I may have had my first kiss when this song was playing the background
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Matilda | Brief Encounter | Red
"Till There Was You." Not only are the lyrics to this song brilliant and all-encompassing, but the bridge of the song where he talks about the sweet fragrant meadows of dawn and dew is a perfect melding of melody, lyric, and movement. The way that the melody leads the chord progression to that perfect beautiful moment where he raises the fifth and hangs suspended there for a brief second is unparalleled in almost any song ever, let alone a Broadway song. I have to give it up to Mr. Wilson. Not only is he a man called Meredith, but the guy could write!
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"I Will Never Leave You" from SIDESHOW.
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Application Pending
"I've Never Said I Love You" from Dear World. The song was blaring in my head when I first said those words (at the tender age of 29). ("Kiss Her Now," also from Dear World, blared in my head during my first kiss, but for a slight change of pronouns.)
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Frozen | Les Miserables
My favorite Broadway love song is “All I Ask of You” from Phantom of the Opera because it’s my favorite Andrew Lloyd Webber show, and I probably listen to that one on repeat the most.
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American Psycho | Kinky Boots | Wicked
"Say it Somehow" from Light in the Piazza. Love is the ultimate universal language. Also, because Matthew Morrison.
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HAIR
Though it's from an off-Broadway show, THE FANTASTICKS, the song "They Were You" is my favorite love song. It is sung after Matt and Luisa have been hurt and taken advantage of, and this make their love even stronger and more pure. It is so beautiful!
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Jersey Boys | The Addams Family | Peter and the Starcatcher
For 2009, I'm gonna go with the Comden/Green/Styne "Make Someone Happy." In an austerity year, it's nice to have a good, schmaltzy ballad to plant your feet and lay into. In a year of paradox, its philosophy is simultaneously simple and fraught with complications. In a time of big national ambition, it's a good, solid personal goal.
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PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT
I'd say "I Have A Love" from WEST SIDE STORY. When the harmonys are pitch perfect, it can still bring a tear to my eye...50 years later.
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Bandstand | Once | Company
To pick one love song is tough, but if there is one thing I have learned about love- it is that it isn’t easy or magic. It is real, messy, simple, complicated and a choice. I think that is beautifully human. So I choose "Marry Me a Little." Marry me a little, Love me just enough. Warm and sweet and easy, Just the simple stuff. Keep a tender distance So we'll both be free. That's the way it ought to be. I’m ready. I’m ready now. Sondheim is such a genius with the way he captures the essence of love. Complicated, simple, and a choice.
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Cabaret | Death of a Salesman | Life (x) 3 | 1776
"Embraceable You." Especially when sung slowly. Listen to Nat or Billie- yummy. Love the lyrics. "You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me." Plus it has the word "naughty." And ya gotta have a little "naughty" on Valentine's Day, don't ya think?

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