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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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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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Bigfoot!
I love "Get Low" by Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys. It's just a great song to dance to. I love to dance, and you know, that's a great activity to go do for Valentine's Day is to go out dancing. And whenever that song ah comes on, I run straight to the dance floor and my inner freak releases.
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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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Jane Eyre | Pirates! The Penzance Musical | Funny Girl | Anastasia | Les Miserables
It's a song I really want to record one day from Romance, Romance- "There Are Words He Doesn't Say". Those words are so heartbreaking.
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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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The Queen of Versailles | 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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Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark | The Addams Family | Wicked
"Best Worst Mistake" from If/Then
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ANYTHING GOES
For me, my favorite Broadway love song is "You Are Love" from SHOW BOAT
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The Ferryman | The Last Ship | Somebody's Daughter
"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.
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Kinky Boots | Mamma Mia!
“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.
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Henry and Mudge The Woman Upstairs | The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown | Wrong Number
"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."
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"People" from FUNNY GIRL
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How to Succeed | The Apple Tree
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.
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Natasha | Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
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.
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Come From Away | Into The Woods | Memphis
“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.
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A Night with Janis Joplin
Overall favorite Broadway love song is "Somewhere" from West Side Story. I love this song!

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