"People" from FUNNY GIRL

My favorite Broadway love song? I am going slightly creepy with a side of unrequited and saying 'Her Face' from Carnival. On first listen, it creeps one out a bit because of the age difference of the characters in the show, but even out of context it's the best song about loving someone you can't have; well let's not say "can't have," they just happen to love someone else maybe at that moment. Great lyric, delicious melody. It's like a big juicy slice of Christmas ham.

Honestly, right now it would be “No One Else” from The Great Comet! It's a gorgeous sentiment, and the string orchestrations that maestro Malloy crafted to accompany Natasha send me straight to heaven every night. I also adore “Wait” from Sweeney Todd.

“My Time of Day” from Guys and Dolls. While it’s not about love of another person of which he sings, the swooning nostalgia for a time and place in this city gets me every time.

Overall favorite Broadway love song is "Somewhere" from West Side Story. I love this song!

Wow, there are so many great Broadway love songs, but if I had to pick one today it would be "Loving You" from PASSION. The lyrics are pure and honest to me and I love the line, "loving you is not a choice..."

My favorite Broadway love song is still "Some Other Time" from On the Town, which was how I voted last year! However, now it's an even more relevant response, since Elizabeth Stanley and company's rendition from the current revival is absolutely one for the ages. A bittersweet, beautiful moment of stillness in the midst of so much divine chaos, it's one of the best and most mature love songs ever written.

"Suddenly Semore" from Little Shop of Horrors.

One of my favorites is from Dead Outlaw and it's called "A Stranger". It is sung to the dead body of her lover, which I think is something you don't see onstage everyday... a love song with a corpse!

My favorite Broadway love song is “And I am Telling You I’m Not Going”. Love can be forceful and complicated, and that song is forceful and complicated, and it’s an amazing showtune and an amazing standalone song.

“Time” from Was by Joe Thalken and Barry Kleinbort.

"Every Single Day" is my favorite love song because it’s a profession of commitment in that honest moment couples face after the 'new relationship energy' has worn off— you’re deep in it, the love is there, and the love is strong. You’re deciding whether you’re really gonna do this, be in it for the long game. You realize that while it looks different than how you thought it’d be, you fell in love, and you are loved so deeply.

My favorite Broadway love song, the first thing that comes to mind is “I Chose Right” from Baby. I loved that song, it was one of the first musicals I ever did and I just fell in love with that song. I sang it for a million auditions.

I decided to narrow it down to pure love songs which I am defining as two people together on stage where one or both are singing about their love. "Love Song" from Pippin, "People Will say We're In Love" from Oklahoma, "Till There Was You" from The Music Man, "Soon It's Gonna Rain" from The Fantasticks, and "Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. And, if forced to choose, for capturing what I'm calling the "truth" about love, the feeling, with clever lyrics and a great melody I'd have to go with “People Will Say We're In Love” from Oklahoma. But it wasn't easy.

My all time favorite love song, BAR NONE, is “Do You Love Me” from Fiddler On The Roof, because it’s real, real love, with all the stress and mess. It cracks me up and crushes my heart every time.

One of my favorite love songs is "My One And Only Love" especially as sung/played by Johnny Hartman & John Coltrane. It is a beautiful song with a gorgeous lyric and it has sentimental associations for me—it was the first dance at my wedding!

“Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music

My choice would be "The Origins of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. First of all I absolutely love this score, but this song really personifies the absolute romanticism that I believe in when it comes to love. The idea that we are one half of a whole and the only way to feel whole is to find our other half is both daunting and beautiful. I luckily found my other half, Jenny Lee Stern, so it makes it a little less daunting.

My favorite, actually, was written by Broadway composers, but I don't think it was ever in a show. Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh wrote a song called "It Amazes Me". If that's not legal, then my favorite from a show is "I Know Your Heart" from HIGH SPIRITS by Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin. That was actually my first Broadway show, for which I was the rehearsal pianist!

It might not be the most romantic song on earth, but "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE always has represented love and relationships and gets me feeling all mushy inside!

I love 'When I First Saw You' from Dreamgirls. It is just a love letter through song... "When I first saw you, I said 'Oh my, that's my dream, that's my dream". What is more beautiful than seeing someone and knowing that is the someone who you have dreamt about your whole life? It's such a short song but it's so full of love. I'm a sucker for love, what can I say?

I mean, one of the beautiful ones is "Not a Day Goes By." It's a beautiful song, isn't it? Just hearing that first melody without even the words is beautiful in itself. You go, oh, here we go! And whoever you're thinking of, gosh... is just someone that you just think, yeah, you're in my heart forever.

One of my favorites (at least my favorite right now) is "With So Little to Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle. It's such a simple yet complex look at a relationship while you're in it, but also looking at it from the future, after the relationship is over. Because who doesn't love a little bit of ambivalence in their love songs?

My favorite Broadway love song (right now, these things are always changing) is "Being Alive" from Company. Like so many Sondheim songs, the beautiful melody is deceptive, and the lyrics reveal ambivalence and conflictedness. The singer realizes that love is going to hurt, it's going to be inconvenient, it's going to downright suck sometimes, but that it's all worth it because truly loving is truly living. It's a realistic love song for grownups, not a candy-coated, idealistic one, and I dig that. It's also my favorite right now because Jessie Mueller sang a gorgeous rendition of it at my wedding this past October, and hearing the song reminds me of that magical evening.

A favorite love song written for Broadway... "My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms. The simplicity of finding the one thing only you could love. It has also been recorded on over 1300 albums by over 600 artists. But, the first song that came to my mind was, "God Only Knows" from Good Vibrations. A song that Paul McCartney has called one of the greatest love songs ever written. I got to sing that song in the show. I also met my wife, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, during that show and sang it to her on the altar.

"Love to Me" from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.

"What About Love" from THE COLOR PURPLE

Valentine's Day is my wedding anniversary with Steve Bakunas. Eight years this year. One of my favorites is "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, now open on Broadway and soon be a huge success. Its gorgeous music brings us hope and joy! I love this song in particular because it is honest and romantic!

This is very appropriate for this Valentine's Day for me. Connie Francis has a song called "I'm Nobody's Baby." It goes, "I'm nobody's baby. I wonder why each night and day I pray that the Lord up above can send me down somebody to love." Sad and beautiful. That's for me.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Always Starting Over" from If/Then. I’ve always been struck by the idea that the most powerful thing about love or loving someone is that at some point it’s going to end, either because one person passes on or because the relationship ends. But we love anyway, and that, to me, is quite powerful. Always Starting Over acknowledges the pain of loss while celebrating the time had together and the challenge and hope in carrying on and moving forward.