"Best Worst Mistake" from If/Then

For me, my favorite Broadway love song is "You Are Love" from SHOW BOAT

"The Night the Pugilist Learned How to Dance" from The Last Ship. I love the song, it's not so much a traditional love song as much as it is a meeting of minds between a father and son and finally getting to connect for the first time.

“Somewhere” from West Side Story. West Side Story has always been one of my favorite shows. The melodies and lyrics link up so perfectly with the emotional journey of the story. I did the show in college and maybe it was the time in my life or that particular moment onstage, but ever since, "Somewhere" has been one of those songs that sort of stops me in my tracks for a minute wherever I hear it. Beautiful.

"Bewitched" from Pal Joey has always been one of my favorite Broadway Love song. But now that Once is a stage musical maybe "Falling Slowly."

"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!

Okay, my unconventional choice for most beautiful B'way love song ever written will be "Once Upon A Time" from ALL AMERICAN by Strouse and Adams. It's rueful, but there is just something so achingly romantic and sweet about the look back at first love - so, I'm choosing it and that's that.

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.

"Being Alive" from Company. Every time I hear that catharsis of that song and someone realizing in something so gargantuan in such a beautiful, heartfelt way just always stops me.

"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.

“Losing My Mind" from Follies. The ache and the longing are almost too much to bear. So real, so recognizable. Sondheim is the master at so many things, but longing...? No one does it better. Here, his usual linguistic pyrotechnics are kept to a spare simplicity that just...breaks you. The rhyme is "up" and "cup". I want you So, it's like I'm Losing my Mind. The Barbara Cook version from the Follies Concert film has etched a groove in my soul. Honorable Mention: "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd. Come on- that’s just pure.

"This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific

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

"Maria" from West Side Story. I want a man to yearn for me like that. Oh, that's beautiful. Do you know what I mean? Someone come sing it to me outside my window!

"One Day More." Here me out. It's a love song about living and working for the next day. Each character is singing about what they want in their life and it's only a day away. Whether or not it's a romance (Marius and Cosette), or love for money (Thenardiers), or love for purpose (Javert), or love for an adopted-ish daughter (Valjean and Cosette), it's a deeply personal love song. We can experience love in so many different ways and I think this encapsulates the passion that comes with that.

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!