My favorite Broadway love song is "Gold" from Once. Everything about it is beautiful- the instrumentation, the lyrics, the passion, the Irish sound. The song as a whole is soulful, emotional, and moving. It's the song you wish was written about you.

"One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story

I'm not sure this qualifies as a "Broadway" love song, but it's a song called "Home" written by musical theatre composer John Bucchino. I've always loved that song. So simple. Just describing how being with someone feels like "home." Makes me cry every time!

I have to go with "Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY. The melody, the wanting, all add up to the most romantic song ever in my humble opinion.

Mine is "Written in the Stars" from Aida, because it's put into perspective how difficult being in love can really be and how we can be confined to color and money over our hearts desires. I love anything that makes me think, and this song does that! Plus it's written and sang beautifully!

"One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. Bernstein music, Sondheim lyrics, the perfection every heart longs to find, coupled with the surety of youth. The combination makes my heart actually hurt.

"On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady, "Come Rain or Come Shine" from St. Louis Woman, and "My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms

It may be kind of an odd love song, but I like "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd. The very first time I heard it when I was a kid, it was just deeply stirring to me and it has remained so. No matter who's singing it.

I like "Close As Pages In A Book." That Romberg melody is romantic in an old-fashioned way, but the Dorothy Fields lyric keeps it sly and sweet. I like it in a low, jazzed up version. It's about two people being so close they know exactly what the other is feeling, which is what I feel about my husband and myself, and that "like the closest book is bound, we're bound to last" . And it's kinda geeky.

One of my favorite traditional Broadway love songs is "It Never Was You" by Weill and Anderson. The lyrics, the accompaniment...it's beautiful music. I will never get tired of this song. One of my favorite contemporary Broadway love songs is "The Next Ten Minutes" by Jason Robert Brown. Ugghh this song makes me feel things. It makes my insides twist and turn. Seriously though, if it comes on in my headphones while I'm walking down the street you can bet on instant tears.

"Last Night Of The World" from Miss Saigon. So romantic.

"A Quiet Thing” by Kander and Ebb. Even though contextually this song from Flora The Red Menace comes out of the main character getting a job for $30/week, I’d like to believe happiness or love can actually be born from the inside of one’s self.

"Better Together" by Jack Johnson

"It Had To Be You" because it was my wedding song to my husband. A special dedication to thank him for taking care of the kids, taking care of the home so I can make this fantastic show.

'Sarah Brown Eyes' from Ragtime

"Say it Somehow” from The Light in the Piazza.

"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along.

My favorite Broadway love song is “The Next Ten Minutes” from The Last Five Years. I love how realistic and honest love is described in this song. Let’s fall in love for the next ten minutes, and should “we make it ‘til then,” try for another until forever. Such a seemingly simple concept but a beautiful take on taking love day by day.

"Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY

There are so many songs that come to mind, but right now it's "Sarah Brown Eyes" from Ragtime. There is something about singing about that first moment of meeting that person who you know is the one. You scrape away all pretense. You throw away all that mess of bravado and adjust yourself in meeting for the first time. It's so romantic, and though it goes to a sad place, that song in that moment is one of the most romantic moments ever.

My favorite Broadway love song is and will always be “Somewhere” from West Side Story. It is heartbreaking, it is beautiful, and it is timeless. Bernstein/Sondheim forever.

My favorite Broadway love song is “Johanna” from Sweeney Todd. It’s just a song that has always touched me really deeply, both because the melody is an earworm, and the passion of a young man who is thinking about this woman and imagining the possibility and the purity of who she is and what their life could be together. I’ve just always felt it to be truthful and beautiful.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler on the Roof. I love the whole show, but I think this song specifically embodies love that has endured many hardships. Love that had lasted a long time, and love that is real.

Truth be told, I am a complete sucker for "Unexpected Song" by Andrew Lloyd Webber from Song & Dance. I think most people, or most people I know anyway, want love to sneak up on them the way that this deceptively simple and casual melody suddenly grabs you by the glands.

My favorite Broadway love song is probably “Suddenly Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors. Two unlikely people finding true love despite their quirks. To me, true love is acceptance… loving the person as they are but in a way that inspires them to be even better. Seymour lets Audrey know he’s there to provide “sweet understanding”. To encounter your “person” who just GETS you and is willing to put in the effort to understand all of who you are… yeah, you won.

I would have to choose “In A Sentimental Mood” from Sophisticated Ladies. It just paints the picture of how falling in love feels, looks and sounds like. Fantasy mixes with reality, new heights of emotions are introduced to your soul and you simply feel like melted butter or a warm fireplace after a cold NY walk. Every time I listen to this song, whether single or taken, I just fall in love with being in love all over again.

My favorite Broadway love song is “My Funny Valentine” because it’s been covered so many times by different people and I just love the sentiment of it, it’s so great

This is of course an impossibly hard question, but my gut reaction was “Talk to Me” from Bye Bye Birdie. I played Albert Peterson my senior year of high school and love how sweet and simple it is. It’s also a very emotionally healthy love song, which I think is rare. When I randomly saw Charles Strouse at a show years later, I ran up to him to tell him how underrated I thought that song was.

I love "Maria" from West Side Story. That music just sweeps you up and makes you feel like you’re flying. Thank you, Leonard Bernstein!

"Some Enchanted Evening” for its soaring romanticism, melody and wonder in that first magical moment, “If I Loved You" for its truthful perfection, and finally - I'm greedy but it’s love and the world is going to need it - "One Hand, One Heart” from the masterpiece that is West Side Story. It is quite simply pure and very beautiful - play it once a week for the next four years, America!