My favorite Broadway love song is “I’ll Cover You” from RENT. I love that it starts off as an intimate ballad in a way and then transforms into a powerful ensemble piece. The lyrics by Jonathan Larson are filled with beautiful metaphors that create vivid images for the audience to visualize how strong the love is between these two characters. What a song!

My favorite Broadway Love Song is "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime. It is a song that I had the phenomenal pleasure of singing in the show with three stunning Tony Award Winning Ladies, LaChanze, Heather Headley and Audra McDonald. The song is the perfect anthemic blend of passion, romance, longing and hope!

"When You're Home" from IN THE HEIGHTS.

My favorite love song is "I feel you, Johanna" from Sweeney Todd. It touches me in such a deep way. It goes right to - I've been married for 35 years to the same beautiful woman, I feel her presence. It just kind of puts it right there: "I feel you."

So I've been thinking about this question and I keep going back to one song.......The Next Ten Minutes from The Last Five Years by the wonderful JRB.....Now I don't necessarily think of that as a love song.....Its not the classic "I love you" bs that is so often selected for the Broadway Love Songs books at Colony! However, this is what people talk about when they are in love! The lyrics are so real!....They touch on the real world issues of How do we make this work and I want to make this work. Theyre open about their problems but talk about the dreams they want to share! Opening up to someone is the hardest thing to do until you are truly in love! That to me is the most romantic thing EVER!

My favorite love song is "You're Gonna Stay" from the musical Shrek. It might not be your typical love song but the dragon loves donkey and eventually he realizes he loves her too. Plus, I loved singing it backstage with my friend, Haven, during the show run at North Shore Music Theater.

"Left Behind" from SPRING AWAKENING

"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma!. The reason this is my fave rave is that my wife Rebecca Baxter and I met playing Laurey and Curly for Minnesota Opera in 1988 in what would be our first of three productions in these roles for various companies. This was the most perfect "courting" love song that any guy could have asked for. Of the 9 productions of Oklahoma! that I have done in my career, this first one was clearly the winner. Our Jud was to be Oscar nominee JK Simmons. Ado Annie, Will Parker and Ali Hakem were Broadway vets Alix Korey, Lara Teeter, and Bruce Adler. Little did we know at the time that we would be in the company of such greatness.

While I could easily make a case for many many Broadway love songs and why they are my favorite (...it's possible I've made a mixed-tape with this very list a few times in my life), I'll have to say: "Unexpected Song" from Song and Dance. I often find those lyrics floating through my head."

A song that I wasn't familiar with prior to starting this rehearsal process was "Loving You" from Passion, and Lea Salonga sings that that's actually the song that I get to cover of hers. And oh my goodness, it goes to show that sometimes when you love somebody, it isn't a choice. It's just who you are, it's in your DNA. It's almost as though the stars align and that person is just meant for you. And I found that love in my life. And I love to be able to draw from that and sing that song. It's just so special.

"Bring Him Home." This is the greatest love song...from a father to his daughter. He is praying for this boy to be delivered safely home. For her. A boy he has never met, but who he knows is his daughter's love. Beautiful.

"All The Wasted Time" from Parade. I saw the show in London as the Donmar Warehouse, and it was fantastic – but this was a big, emotional number form the character just when you wanted it.

I'm going to say "Tonight" from West Side Story. Because it's so full of hope and optimism. Love helps them see the world as it can be. As wondrous.

"All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera as it is asking if you will love me always and forever and not just a short term thing.

"If Ever I Would Leave You" from CAMELOT

The most romantic Broadway song is "All the Things You Are"

"My Funny Valentine" from BABES in ARMS. What's better than that?

My favorite Broadway love song is probably "The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years!

“50 Percent" from Ballroom. I love this song because it shows that you can find love at any age and that often love comes in many forms.

"Totally Fucked" from Spring Awakening. ‘Cause that's when you know he loves you.

“Maybe This Time” (Cabaret). This song always affected me, even as a child watching the Bob Fosse film. It has such longing and passion that reveal itself more and more, and it’s interesting to see the actress singing it shift back and forth as a broken character that is desperate for rescue.

“Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” from PAL JOEY because it’s sung by an older woman that has still 'got it.' Also “Think of Me” from PHANTOM because I am constantly saying good-bye to the ones I love.

"There's A Fine, Fine Line" from AVENUE Q

"Sue Me" from Guys and Dolls. We normally think that love songs are ballads, but "Sue Me" is anything but! It's brassy, energetic, catchy, treacle-free and funny. Even though it doesn't stand as a love song outside of the specifics of Guys and Dolls, it never fails to put a smile on my face.

I guess it would have to be our wedding song, which was also a song I sang in Guys and Dolls: "I've Never Been in Love Before." It's a story about a person who has protected himself from love. The odds weren't in love's favor, and he didn't give it much time, but when it hits you, you can't deny it. It's a song about lamenting one's powerlessness and admitting to one's hidden desires.

Well, it's more of a love triangle song, but "Lily's Eyes" from The Secret Garden. I love that song!

"What I Did For Love" from A Chorus Line is definitely our favorite to perform. It’s such a powerful and emotional anthem that perfectly encapsulates the complexities of love and sacrifice. The lyrics are raw and honest, and capture the intense feelings of longing, devotion, and heartbreak that often accompany love.

"My Funny Valentine" from BABES IN ARMS.

"Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific. I just think it's the many ways it's used in the show and just the melody, lyrics, it's so simple. It's beautiful.