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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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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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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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The Queen of Versailles | Boop! | 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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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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The Rocky Horror Show | High Spirits | POTUS
This isn't a happy, sappy, gooey love song, but what comes to mind for me is "Losing My Mind" from Follies. It's a song about obsession and focusing on one person very strongly. It's a little dark and heavy duty and I love it.
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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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The Lost Boys
The first thing that pops in my head is "If I Loved You" from Carousel. I really wish I got to see that cast with Joshua Henry. It's such a beautiful, song. The lyrics make my heart tingle.

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