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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 Visit | West Side Story | Chicago | Kiss of a Spider Woman | Nine | Bye Bye Birdie |
"Only Love" from ZORBA by Kander & Ebb. I love it because of the simplicity of the lyrics and the beautiful melody.
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Ragtime | Leopoldstadt | Falsettos | An American in Paris | Baby It's You
"What Would I Do" from Falsettos. Because it's flawlessly heartbreaking. I DARE YOU TO DISAGREE.
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POTUS | Hey | Look Me Over! | Sondheim on Sondheim | Into the Woods | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Mule Bone | Sarafina!
My favorite Broadway love song is "Where Is Love?" It makes me cry all the time!
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Gypsy | The Notebook | Six | Little Shop of Horrors
Well, I can't tell you which just yet... but most of them are in The Notebook!
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Masquerade | Aladdin | In Transit | Allegiance | Godspell | Pacific Overtures
My current favorite Broadway love song is “We Are Home,” a song written for me and Justin Guarini for In Transit. Love singing it to my sweet show-hubby Justin 8 times a week!
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Hello Dolly! | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Big Fish | Giant | Finian's Rainbow
My favorite Broadway love song is "My Heart is so Full of You" from The Most Happy Fella.
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Take Me Out | Modern Family | On the Town | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The most romantic song ever written is "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp", but we are talking BROADWAY so... My favorite song ever written also happens to be the song that I think is the most romantic broadway song ever written: "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" by Rodgers and Hart from PAL JOEY. Ella Fitzgerald's version of it puts me over the moon. I will never get tired of it.
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& Juliet | Spamalot | Chicago | Hamilton | Freestyle Love Supreme | Aladdin | Memphis
There are so many songs that come to mind, but right now it's "Sarah Brown Eyes" from Ragtime. There is something about singing about that first moment of meeting that person who you know is the one. You scrape away all pretense. You throw away all that mess of bravado and adjust yourself in meeting for the first time. It's so romantic, and though it goes to a sad place, that song in that moment is one of the most romantic moments ever.
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Chicago | Shucked | Once On This Island
It’s a tossup between "My Man" (Funny Girl) and "I Got Love" (Purlie). I love both of these songs for the simplicity of the lyrics in each, and how real they are! They contrast because with "My Man," there's a undertone of triumph in heartbreak and longing, and with "I Got Love," it's literally all about that fresh new love and what emotions are like when it's first starting!
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Mean Girls | KPOP | Sunday in the Park with George | The King and I
Anything from the Rodgers + Hammerstein canon. Most recently, I reheard "Hello Young Lovers" (The King and I) and it made my heart swell, especially: "Be brave young lovers and follow your star. Be brave and faithful and true," to wish goodness and love and togetherness onto others. To pass along happiness and hope to young ones especially: a message we can cling onto today. Isn't that the magic of R + H love songs? Exquisite timelessness.
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Oh | Mary! | Once Upon a Mattress | Spamalot | Grand Horizons | Torch Song | Buyer and Cellar | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
My favorite Broadway love song is Judy Kuhn singing "A Heart Full of Love" from Les Miserables. I listened to it today and started crying and almost fell off the elliptical.
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Sweeney Todd | Sunday in the Park with George | Sylvia | Kinky Boots | Rent | Legally Blonde | Wicked
"Losing My Mind" from Follies. It's a little uncertain, as love so often is!
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The Lost Boys | Hell's Kitchen | Mr. Saturday Night | Wicked | Hairspray
"All the Wasted Time" - PARADE; "What About Love" - THE COLOR PURPLE; "I'll Be Here" - THE WILD PARTY; "In Whatever Time We Have" - CHILDREN OF EDEN. I can't pick just one! You choose!
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Come From Away | Chaplin | If/Then
How about "The Next Ten Minutes" from Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years? "There are so many dreams I need to see with you. There are so many years I need to be with you. I will never be complete, I will never be alive, I will never change the world until I do." Ah, it makes my knees tremble.
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Flying Over Sunset | Call Me Madam | Bright Star | Wicked
"On the Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady. Many women have sung it but I need to sing it!
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Cats: The Jellicle Ball | Hadestown | The Wiz | Aint Misbehavin' | The Full Monty | Impressionism
My favorite Broadway love song is "Home" from the score of THE WIZ. It is composer Charlie Small's compelling lyric about everyone's first love: "When I think of home, I think of a place where there's love overflowing." Happy Valentine's Day.
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Ragtime | The Shark Is Broken | Violet | Anything Goes | Jersey Boys | Almost Famous | Songs for a New World |
I'm a big fan of the classic musical love songs like "Easy to Love" from Anything Goes, but one that moved me the first time I heard it Off-Broadway and has stuck with me since is "Wait for Me" from Hadestown. It's just stunning and tragic and beautiful.
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The Rocky Horror Show | Dead Outlaw | Shucked | Ink | Head Over Heels | War Horse
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. They are both coming into their own and realizing their love for each other.
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Into the Woods | Finian's Rainbow | Xanadu | All Shook Up | AIDA | Thoroughly Modern Millie
That was a hard question, but the first one that comes to mind is "Johanna" from SWEENEY TODD. The melody is just so lush and haunting....and I love how it is just so intense that it almost borders on stalking......."I'll steal you, Johanna......till I'm with you then I'm with you there, buried sweetly in your yellow hair." oh yeah.
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Newsies | Tuck Everlasting
My favorite Broadway love song is "So Many People" from Saturday Night. Despite being gay himself, Stephen Sondheim rarely depicts the gay experience in his work. Yet in his first musical, I find these lyrics striking. "And if they tell us it's a thing we'll outgrow, they're jealous as they can be / That with so many people in the world you love me." I'm not sure if it's subliminal or just unintentional, but I remember hearing this song for the first time as a teenager and feeling a little less alone.
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Kimberly Akimbo | Head Over Heels
I’ve always loved the pair of love songs in Thoroughly Modern Millie, "I Turned the Corner" & "Gimme Gimme." First of all, you cannot go wrong with Gavin Creel & Sutton Foster, the acting and those voices! There is such an emotional journey for both characters that happens and the music swelling, it just takes the listener right into the world and makes you root for these two characters to end up together.
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Titanique | Cinderella | South Pacific | Sister Act
"The Boy is Mine" by Brandy and Monica because there's nothing like fighting over your man with sweet riffs.
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The Odd Couple | The Vagina Monologues | She Loves Me | The Ritz
My favorite love song is “The Folks Who Live on the Hill.” When my husband and I first moved into our house in Berkeley, I remember we would look out at the hills and listen to Peggy Lee singing in the background. My husband would always ask me to sing along to him.
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Frozen | Lysistrata Jones | Xanadu
This year, my favorite Broadway love song is “Suddenly Seymour.” The idea of two broken people showing each other that they are wonderful and worthy of life is my idea of true love. Plus, epic belting!
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Marjorie Prime | The Little Foxes | Wit | Rabbit Hole | The Women | Indiscretions | Angels in America | Hurlyburly | The Vagina Monologues
"Come to Me, Bend to Me" from Brigadoon.
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Dear Evan Hansen | A Christmas Story | Dogfight
“Soon It’s Gonna Rain” from The Fantasticks is it for me. Two young people stealing away and singing a love song, together alone for the first time. Gorgeously poetic yet simple lyrics paired with such lush but restrained music. What an easy song to get lost in. I remember playing it for my wife on an early date of ours…you can decide if that’s terribly romantic or terribly nerdy…or both?
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Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | King Kong | A Bronx Tale
My favorite Broadway love song is: “Forever Yours” from Once On This Island. The song manages to capture so much beauty and heartbreak in every other phrase. The juxtaposition is so magnificent.
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Cabaret | Company | Follies | A Little Night Music | Sweeney Tood | Evita | The Phantom of the Opera and LoveMusik among many | many more!
With apologies to probably a thousand songs that I almost equally love, still I would choose "Some Enchanted Evening". From the first bar in the song, I'm lost.
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If/Then | Rent | You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
It's probably obvious, but it's true: "I'll Cover You" from RENT.
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Ragtime | Dear Evan Hansen
My favorite Broadway love song has to be from Next to Normal. It would be “Hey #3/Perfect For You” because it is the culmination of this beautiful, tricky love story between two people that I have grown to love dearly even though they don’t exist, and I think it is also very pretty.

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