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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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Bad Cinderella | School of Rock | Disaster! | Spring Awakening | The Wedding Singer | Thoroughly Modern Millie
"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.
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A Beautiful Noise | Moulin Rouge! | Nice Work If You Can Get It | Anything Goes | Grease | Chicago
"Better Together" by Jack Johnson
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Call Me Madam | The Prom | Mean Girls
"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.
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Memphis
'Sarah Brown Eyes' from Ragtime
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Flash Dance | West Side Story
"Say it Somehow” from The Light in the Piazza.
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
"Not a Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along.
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Dancin' | King Kong
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.
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Grease | 'You're the One That I Want,' Guys and Dolls | The King and I | Saturday Night Fever
"Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY
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An Enemy of the People
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.
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Hadestown | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
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.
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Kimberly Akimbo
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.
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What the Constitution Means to Me
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.
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MJ
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.
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MJ
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.
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Ain't Too Proud | Motown
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
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Endlings
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.
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Tommy | Aladdin | Les Miserables | The Lion King
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!
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The Present
"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!
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Funny Girl
The first musical I saw was a high school production of Brigadoon, and I was completely transported from the top of the show. Then, came the scene, when Charlie sings "Come to me, Bend to me", and the tenor playing him had one of those "spinning-sunshine" voices...and I just left the planet. It still kills me every time.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
“If I Loved You” from Carousel. Just an awesome classic Broadway ballad - heartrendingly sweet and complex.
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ROCK OF AGES | FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
"Being Alive" from COMPANY.
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Hamilton | Matilda the Musica | Newsies
"Three Little Words" from Ghost. It's beautiful and not overdone....and maybe because I struggle myself with saying it at times :/ Granted... I haven't had someone to say it to in YEARS! #WhereAreYouSoulMate?
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Barococo
"They Were You," from The Fantasticks; and "As Long as She Needs Me," from Oliver.
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Memphis | All Shook Up | Caroline or Change | Titanic | Sunday in the Park With George
Got to be " Some Enchanted Evening".
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Days of Wine and Roses | Tina | Once On This Island | After Midnight
"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime. That songs tells an incredible story of a love that was broken.
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Six | Hamilton
I love "Love Song" from Pippin. I think it's so beautiful and simple and it gives me all the feels!
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JERSEY BOYS
"She's Got A Way" from MOVIN OUT
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
From Cardinal Wolsey… My favorite Broadway love song is "September Song" from Knickerbocker Holiday.
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Sunset Boulevard | Aladdin
My favorite Broadway love song is "A Whole New World" from Aladdin because I think it's what it's all about.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert
'If Ever I Would Leave You' from Camelot. My parents played the album all the time when I was a child, and it stays with me all these years later

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