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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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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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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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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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Creative
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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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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& Juliet | South Pacific | Chicago
I really enjoy two songs from Kismet: “And This is My Beloved” & “Stranger in Paradise”. And of course I do have to support the one and only “Some Enchanted Evening.”
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The Cher Show | Finding Neverland | Wicked
My favorite Broadway love song would have to be the entire bench scene in Carousel. "If I Loved You" is such a classic romantic tune, but encased within the full orchestrated "bench scene" it is a beautiful depiction of the moment two lost souls fall in love.
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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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Leopoldstadt | Caroline Or Change | Frozen | Les Miserables | Ghost | Hair | Wicked | Hairspray
My first job out of school was Rent, and "I'll Cover You" will forever be one of my favorite love songs, And the reprise?! Forget it!
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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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Smash | The Prom | Bullets Over Broadway | Promises | Promises | Present Laughter | The Ritz | Gypsy | The Producers | Little Me | Dream | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Fame Become Me
It would have to be "My Friends" from SWEENEY TODD. A strange choice, I grant you, but I think it honestly shows ALL kinds of love lyrically-speaking, and, musically, the sense of longing in the actual accompaniment joined with the familiarity/comfort of the song's orchestration (in the original production - and that's not meant as a dig to the current revival's brilliantly realized and fitting orchestrations); truly utilizing the strings and the brass as - up to that point - the audience's "friends", for me, adds up to being the definition of romantic. Or, if this diatribe is a bit much, just say I said "People Will Say We're In Love", and put whatever reason you'd like.
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Creative
The Connector | Parade | Honeymoon in Vegas | The Bridges of Madison County | The Last Five Years | Songs for a New World
"Baby Got Back." It's an oldie but a goodie. "My anaconda don't want none unless it's got buns hun." That's love to me.
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Bad Cinderella | 1776 | Hello | Dolly! | Tuck Everlasting | Finding Neverland | Scandalous | Sister Act | The Addams Family
My favorite Broadway love song has to be "All the Wasted Time" from Parade. It has a special place in my heart. I think it's one of the great duets- unusual and striring and complicated and all the things that love can be.
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Sunset Blvd. | Hamilton | Wicked | In The Heights | Lennon | Aida | Dance of the Vampires
It would have to be "One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. It fills my heart every time I hear it....
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The Music Man | The Ferryman | Oklahoma! | Young Frankenstein
I am partial to “Til There Was You” from Music Man. Standing offstage watching Sutton sing it every night was such a treat. And I swear, some nights, I thought I heard her say, “til there was Hugh”.
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Sign of the Times | Paradise Square | Beautiful | Jesus Christ Superstar
"If I Loved You" from Carousel. It's so sweet and sad. Those are my favorite love songs... the ones that are a little bit heart-breaky.
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | SpongeBob Squarepants | Mary Poppins
My solo in Old Friends is "Could I Leave You?", which is a very anti-love song. Someone's just asked me, oh, I think you should leave me. And then the song is super sarcastic. So I've just turned it on his head. It's not romantic at all. It's like, we used to be in love and it's all gone horribly wrong.
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Once Upon a Mattress | Beautiful | Newsies | Wicked
“It Only Takes a Moment” – Hello Dolly
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Mean Girls | Peter Pan Live | Bring It On | Kinky Boots
My favorite Broadway love song is “Always Better” from The Bridges of Madison County. I was lucky enough to be involved in a developmental reading of the show and was continuously moved by the song. Always brought to tears. After all, love is love is love is love and it is the greatest thing on Earth!
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Be More Chill | Dear Evan Hansen
"Inside Your Heart" from Bat Boy. The great thing about this song is that it's like the metaphor of I will always live inside your heart, but she's actually talking about letting the Bat Boy drink her blood so she will always live inside of his heart literally! I love that show.
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Les Miserables | The Color Purple
My favorite Broadway love song is "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific because it is just beautiful. It's an incredible song. That song of yearning and of really putting out your whole life in front of someone else...The think I love about it the most is that everyone dreams about that moment. That moment of meeting someone and falling in love immediately.
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Gypsy | The Notebook
Other than something from The Notebook (obviously), I think my favorite Broadway love song is “Falling Into You” from The Bridges of Madison County. The restraint used in the composition is so satisfying, and then you have these two iconic Broadway voices telling the story. I mean, sonically and lyrically it’s just so delicious— it’s a sophisticated duet that perfectly captures that ‘Aha! I’ve found my person’ moment! Chefs' kiss!
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Finding Neverland | Glee | South Pacific | Light in the Piazza | Hairspray
Alright, this might sound weird coming from me, but I think the most romantic song in MT would have to be "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver. It is simply splendiferous!! Whenever someone gives me those little butterflies in my stomach, I usually sing this song ... except I just change the he to a she!
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A Beautiful Noise | Les Miserables | Priscilla Queen of the Desert | Hair | 110 in the Shade | Lestat
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