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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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Pictures from Home | My Fair Lady | Fiddler on the Roof | The Addams Family |
My favorite Broadway love song is “Where or When” by Rogers and Hart from Babes in Arms. Aside from that achingly beautiful melody, I love the mystery of déjà vu in the lyrics. How can this person we’ve just met and that we’re falling for seem so wonderfully familiar? It’s as if we “met before and laughed before and loved before” on some stellar plane outside of time and space, “but who knows where or when?” And suddenly they’re now here with us, where they’ve somehow always been, and where they always belong.
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HAIR
"Master of the House" from LES MISERABLES
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School of Rock | Legally Blonde
My favorite is "Love to Me" from The Light In the Piazza.
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Sunset Boulevard | Carousel
Being a father of five, the one that comes to mind is the one that the father sings in The Addams Family, "Happy/Sad". I find it so charming that he is singing a love song to his daughter, handing her off in marriage.
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Project Runway
From Follies, "Losing My Mind." I have to tell you, it brings me to tears everytime I hear it. It's very emotional, it's very moving- and who among us hasn't experienced that kind of pain? And it's such a beautiful lyric and such gorgeous music.
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Tuck Everlasting | Amazing Grace | All the Way
The two Broadway love songs that found their way into my heart during my adolescent cast album binge period are still very much there today: "Love Song" from Pippin and "I Won't Send Roses" from Mack & Mabel. That dichotomy explains me about as well as I can be explained.
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Red Roses | Green Gold
“Til There Was You” from The Music Man
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Tales from the Guttenberg Bible | Relatively Speaking | The Exonerated | Prelude to a Kiss
"Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific stirs my soul. Rodgers and Hammerstein created a love song that defies time , changes in culture, and an ever evolving society. Love stays put, as the world keeps spinning.
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Billy Elliot Broadway & West End | City of Angels
What an impossible question. But if I go with the first song to come into my head, it would have to be 'If I Loved You' from Carousel. Ravishing combination of harmony & lyrics. On another day, it might be 'In Buddy's Eyes' from Follies. Complicated & ambiguous, it blows me away when I hear it.
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You Can't Take It With You | Anything Goes | Twentieth Century | Gypsy | Hairspray
"Our Love Is Here to Say." It's one of my husband's favorite songs and they sang it at our wedding 23 years ago.
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The Lion King
My favorite love song is "What About Love" from The Color Purple. It is the perfect example of how two unlikely hearts find love, throwing all caution to the wind amidst a ton of doubt and many obstacles. Sort of like the most beautiful orchid can grow in the rockiest soil, because love is love is...you know the rest.
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Tony-nominated Director | Rock of Ages
"The Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY. It kills me! And the right person singing it gives me chills... And, of course, "Being Alive" from COMPANY, which I think summarizes the paradox of love.
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How to Succeed | Cry Baby | In My Life | Rent
'Say It Somehow' from The Light in the Piazza is by far my favorite Broadway love song.
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Legally Blonde
It's a toss up between "As Long as You're Mine" from WICKED (and that may be bc when Norbert Leo Butz sings it...I Melt!) and "Sunrise" from IN THE HEIGHTS.
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Grease: You're The One That I Want | Thoroughly Modern Millie | The Fantasticks | Beauty and the Beast
"The Next 10 Minutes" from THE LAST 5 YEARS.
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Legally Blonde
The most romantic broadway song ever (to me) would have to be (PS... this is a very hard question to answer because I have so many) But the first song that comes to my mind is Only Love...lol! From The Scarlet Pimpernel.. I know that it isn't super romantic... but there is such a romantic note behind it all...so i say ONLY LOVE from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL... final answer :)
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Schimgadoon | Into the Woods | Cinderella | 9 to 5 | Les Miserables | Avenue Q
I love "Near to You" from Damn Yankees because to me it's so poignant. It's about a husband and a wife, but also somebody who can't say what they really want. And I just think it's really beautiful.
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Chicago | Les Miserables in Concert
There are so many songs I love, but I'd have to say "Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I is definitely one of the most romantic ones I've heard.
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Kimberly Akimbo
“Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me” from Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. It’s a gorgeous song that explains exactly how we all feel about it. I was never a big fan of Valentine’s Day, so this song is for everyone who also isn’t big on Valentine’s Day. “As they say in the song, you done me wrong”. Dump him!
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Ain't Too Proud | Beautiful | Guys and Dolls | The Color Purple
My favorite Broadway love song is “When I First Saw You” from Dreamgirls and it’s because it’s one of the first love songs that I learned from a Broadway show and it’s such a powerful song and a very tender moment, and a moment where Curtis is really trying to let Deena know just what she means to him, and it’s a very tenuous moment in the show so I love that song a lot.
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Mr. Saturday Night
Omg easy! "Elaborate Lives" from Aida hands down. Heather Headley and Adam Pascal. Love me some star crossed lover storytelling. It’s either that or "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime. No better love story than a Heather Headley + Audra McDonald mashup!
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Significant Other
That's easy, it's "Would You Light My Candle?" I was a total Renthead as a kid, I love that song, I could perform it for you right now but I'm not going to, perfectly in tune with all the right words. I love that song.
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The Robber Bridegroom | Peter and the Starcatcher | Avenue Q | Phantom of the Opera
"If Ever I Would Leave You"- from Camelot
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Moulin Rouge!
It's not really a love song. The one that hits me the most is "Being Alive" from Company. It's that for me, and encapsulates life and about the love of life. That one's special.
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Cinderella | Mame | On the Town | Thoroughly Modern Millie
When I was a girl, I had a lovely white stuffed elephant that played "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific. Both the music and the elephant were very consoling to a rather overwrought eight year old. I have always loved the song and even now think of it unexpectedly. "Who can explain it? Who can tell you why? Fools give you reasons, Wise men never try."
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Girl from the North Country
“Sarah Brown Eyes” from Ragtime, because it embodies so perfectly the feelings one has in finding their true love, and reminds me of my beautiful wife.
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Founder/President The Hartman Group PR
"On The Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY.
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The Phantom of the Opera | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | The Music Man
William Shakespeare put it best: “The course of true love never did run smooth.” To me, love songs aren’t just schmaltzy songs about love, they are songs about hope. We all hope for love....and hope keeps us going. Songs like “I Loved You Once in Silence” and “Somewhere” are amazing classics, but I am so drawn to “Falling Slowly” from Once.
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Come From Away | Billy Elliot | Annie
Thirty some years ago I played the sea captain who delivers Anna to Siam and comes and picks her up at the end of The King And I. During the intervening 3 hours, I would play gin with the actor playing the ambassador but we would always pause our game to listen to the beautiful love duet "I Have Dreamed". You can't do better than Rogers and Hammerstein.
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The Phantom of the Opera | Les Misérables |
My favorite love song from Broadway is “People Will Say We’re in Love”. I just think there is nothing more musical theater than Rogers & Hammerstein, and I’m from Oklahoma and I kind of get the redneck thing, so that’s my favorite song.

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