Mine is "My Funny Valentine" because it's just the most beautiful song ever written

I may be jumping the gun a bit but, "A Whole New World" from Aladdin is my favorite broadway love song. It reminds me of how I felt when I was first courting my wife.

My favorite Broadway love song is not from your typical fairytale romance. The song is “Bring Me to Light” and it’s the closing number of the musical Violet. The lyrics are about asking the people we care about most to help us through life’s journey and find our light in the darkness: “And as I go along I want you with me If I tell you my heart has been opened wide If I tell you I’m frightened If I show you the darkness I hold inside Will you bring me to light?”

My favorite Broadway love song is "Gee, Officer Krupke." It is the first song I learned. And really, what love affair is complete without social disease, cross dressing, and the request to Krup oneself?

My favorite Broadway love song is called "Somebody Older," which Debra Monk sang to me in Steel Pier when she was in love with me and I didn't think I was enough for her. So I broke away from her. And there's a beautiful, beautiful sensitive moment where someone says maybe you don't know what's best for you, I know what's best for you. And that will always be my favorite Broadway love song.

"Cactus Time in Arizona" from GIRL CRAZY. It's really odd but somehow perfect.

One of my favorites since I was a kid was from Godspell. "By My Side" expresses a very deep love, but it also expresses a type of sacrifice that goes along with that love. When I was first introduced to that song as a teenager, I found it quite profound and mind-boggling.

My favorite love song from Broadway is Funny Girl's "The Music That Makes Me Dance." I mean, anything Barbra Streisand does turns to gold for me, so her voice on anything. And Funny Girl is one of my favorites, all-time favorites, so that's mine.

What is my favorite Broadway love song? "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. It’s not strictly speaking ‘Broadway’ but it’s a bloody good song!

My favorite Broadway love song is “Come What May“ from Moulin Rouge! Considering the fact that my husband and I just recited our wedding vows to one another, this song really does sum it up. No matter what comes, whatever trials and tribulations, I’ll love you until my dying day. That’s it right there.

"Come to Me, Bend to Me" from BRIGADOON.

"Origin of Love" from Hedwig. So psyched to see Neil Patrick Harris kill it in Michael Mayer's production this spring.

This might be an obvious one but "If Ever I Would Leave You". My now husband and I first started dating in college right around his showcase season. He was a senior when I was a sophomore and If Ever I Would Leave You was his showcase song. Lemme tell youuuu I absolutely swooned... it always makes me think of him when I hear it.

“Daybreak" from Floyd Collins is not a romantic love song but a song between brothers and a harkening back to a childhood memory and then ultimately about being there for each other. So it’s still a love song. Hard to pick a favorite song but this one is on my mind cause this FC is a show I’m dying to do and was just listening to and showing my friend Jason Danieley’s perfect voice.

"Sandy" from GREASE (the movie). I know its not in the original stage version, but it should be! Travolta is God! Or "Younger Than Springtime" from SOUTH PACIFIC.

"All the Things You Are". It's and old operetta and I love it!

Mine is "Marry Me" by Kander and Ebb. The line "you may not know it yet, but I'm the best you'll get," though unintentionally snarky, is so sweet and charming. Also the melody and chords of the song are so tender.

"Younger Than Springtime" from SOUTH PACIFIC. South Pacific is my favorite musical and I performed Lt. Cable a long time ago!

"Without Love" from Hairspray is my favorite. I can't listen to it without singing along and instantly smiling.

"Seasons of Love" from Rent. It's just so beautiful and reminds you to not take every moment for granted, to really invest and participate in your own life and not be afraid. Every time I hear it, it gives me chills.

I will say, "All the Things You Are" because I feel like that's a traditional love song but the core progressions are so unexpected that it makes it so interesting and full and rich. It's not a "paint by numbers" love song. It's really complicated.

"Come To Me, Bend To Me" from BRIGADOON.

'Will He Like Me' from She Loves Me

“Tonight” from West Side Story

What is my favorite Broadway love song? Is that a trick question?! There are so many good ones to choose from, but I have to say it’s a tie between “Ten Minutes Ago” from Cinderella, “So Mane People” from Saturday Night, and “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” from The Lion King. What can I say? I’m a hopeless romantic :)

"Changing My Major" from Fun Home and "What Is It About Her?" from Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party.

My favorite Broadway love song is “I Could Have Danced All Night”. It’s old school.

It was unsettling when I realized how many love songs that I adore are actually sad, break up songs. I'm gonna choose to not look too deeply into that. But in keeping with that theme, there's a video on YouTube somewhere of beautiful, older Dorothy Loudon ( the original Ms. Hannigan) at some Sondheim celebration concert singing a mash up of "Losing My Mind" from Follies and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" from Company that was both very moving and so, so funny. She goes from being totally forlorn and melancholic to then being so angry to then just going completely bonkers. It's great. 'Cause you know, it's just like how love is, right?!

My favorite, most romantic Broadway love-song ever is "Some Enchanted Evening." In addition to the gorgeous melody and orchestration, the lyrics are so beautifully pure and romantic. It's about love at first sight, that unexplainable feeling of finding true love from across a crowded room. It makes me cry almost every time I hear it.

"On the Street Where you Live" from MY FAIR LADY.