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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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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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The Phantom of the Opera | On the Town | Hair | Hands on a Hardbody | Catch Me If You Can
I have to say "Embraceable You" from GIRL CRAZY!
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The Drowsy Chaperone | Damn Yankees | Will Rogers Follies
"Will He Like Me?" From SHE LOVES ME. Its such a beautiful song. "Will he know that there's a world of love waiting to warm him?" Heartbreakingly romantic.
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The Color Purple | The Winter's Tale | Peter and the Starcatcher | The Merchant of Venice
One of my favorite love songs of all time is "Feels Like a Home" by Randy Newman from Faust. I love this song because of its simplistic melody; it yearns, it is resolved, it has learned to respect the need for love.
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Something Rotten! | Bullets Over Broadway
Mine is "Would You Light My Candle" from Rent. I used to passionately improv dance to that song along in my bedroom - ha!
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On Sugarland
“When I First Saw You” from Dreamgirls. I really love this song because it reminds me of my first real crush back in middle school. You’re so young and naive and you swear your little crush is like the most important thing in the world. That puppy love lol!
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Dear Evan Hansen | Pippin | Hair
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AMERICAN IDIOT | PASSING STRANGE
"One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY.
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The Jonathan Larson Project | Six | The Devil Wears Prada | Scotland PA | Head Over Heels | Groundhog Day
My favorite Valentine's Day song would be "Take Me or Leave Me" from Rent. I know it's kind of a breakup song but I think you have to start with so much love. There's so much love between those two women that they can't even take it at that moment. And I think it's just, it's never wrong for that song. It's never wrong time for that song.
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The World of Extreme Happiness | Pacific Overtures | Thoroughly Modern Millie | M. Butterfly
I am constantly cycling through love songs! But my current favorite Broadway love song is "Love Will Stand When All Else Falls" from Memphis. It perfectly articulates attachment, time, obstacles, perseverance and the temporary nature of all things.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | The Crucible
“You're All I Need To Get By by Ashford and Simpson. From Motown The Musical. This song has been in my top 10 of love songs for ever. Released as a single by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell in the late 60s. When I saw Motown The Musical on Opening Night on Broadway, April 2013, so many of the songs lifted my heart but when this song started I had tingles and felt so blissfully happy. I think I joined in a little too loudly and irritated my immediate neighbors in the dress circle. Great lyrics, great chords great love song”
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Carousel | The Phantom of the Opera
My favorite Broadway love song is not really a love song, but when my husband proposed to me, he booked a hotel room with a grand piano and he had me play and sing “Defying Gravity” for him. That was his proposal idea. So, I have to say that’s my favorite Broadway love song.
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Significant Other
“Lost In the Stars”
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Diana | Anastasia | Cinderella | Nice Work if You Can Get It | Sweeney Todd | Wicked | Mamma Mia!
My favorite Broadway love song comes from Very Warm for May by Jerome Kern. It's "All the Things You Are." How could I not love that song? It's the most gorgeous song ever written.
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Once | To Be Or Not To Be | 110 In The Shade | Spamalot
My favorite Broadway love song would have to be Johanna, "Sweeney Todd" Stephen Sondheim as sung by the Amazing Victor Garber. The lyrics, lyrics, lyrics. Such a plaintive yet defiantly optimistic love song. Oh and Victor also KILLS it!!
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The Prom (National Tour)
"What About Love?" from The Color Purple. I just love that it captures a moment of the risk being there, but what about the thing that we gain? What about this beautiful connection that we can have? It captures that beautifully.
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Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | The Boy from Oz | Hairspray
So many beautiful, sensual, powerful, touching songs, but OH the towering feeling when my love Mark (Berman) serenades me from his piano with "On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady.
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Once | Feston | Twelfth Night | Working
"If I Fell" from Beatlemania. It's nice to know that something you liked as a child is still great.
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We're Gonna Die | A Strange Loop
My favorite Broadway love song is "Delovely" by Cole Porter. I like it because it makes me feel those butterflies that people talk about all the time. I think I feel them when I hear that song.

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