"Some Enchanted Evening". It speaks to the irrationality of love, how fleeting it can be, and how you have to dive in, eyes wide shut and trust you heart. Love doesn?t always make sense. If you let your mind take over you can talk yourself out of anything. Happy Valentines Day!

"I Have a Love" from WEST SIDE STORY. Why? Listen to the lyric - "love him...right or wrong." It's a brilliant piece of writing. My favorite movie song is "The More I See You," Harry Warren - "The more I see you...the more I want you..."

I like "Close As Pages In A Book." That Romberg melody is romantic in an old-fashioned way, but the Dorothy Fields lyric keeps it sly and sweet. I like it in a low, jazzed up version. It's about two people being so close they know exactly what the other is feeling, which is what I feel about my husband and myself, and that "like the closest book is bound, we're bound to last" . And it's kinda geeky.

Something by Cole Porter although I'd be hard-pressed to pick a specific favorite. I love "The Party's Over" from BELLS ARE RINGING. My mother sang it all the time, and I get all mushy every time that I hear it.

There are so many. But I'll go with the one that I was listening to in my car earlier today. "My Heart is So Full of You" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser. In the show, the relationship between the singers of this song (Tony and Rosabella) got off to a terribly shaky start built around lies and feelings of betrayal. But then they start over and start to truly fall in love with each other and they sing this song. Tony is so excited singing "My wife, she's a love me now!" And Rosabella releases herself of a life of wishes and dreams as she realizes that she has the real thing. Oh, I get so excited talking about it. Starting over. True love. "My Heart is So Full of You." That's my pick. Happy Valentine's Day.

"Maria", from WEST SIDE STORY -- it tells it all...

My choice is "This Nearly Was Mine." It's a song about loss, yes, but If you can find the version by Ed Alstrom (on "Acid Cabaret") I promise it will tear your heart out. The song aches with a missed opportunity, but you know that the singer is a changed person and will not let that chance pass again, which is ultimately most hopeful and romantic!

Hands down: "All The Things You Are". No question about it! On the other hand, it could be "If I Loved You". Yes, that's it. "If I Loved You", hands down. No question about it! Because the music expresses emotion about love...

For me, the most romantic song ever written for the theatre is DEFINITELY "Epiphany" from SWEENEY TODD. Not an obvious choice, but consider: an overwhelmingly powerful outpouring of dark, obsessive, romantic yearning, loss, and emotional waves and torrents. It is powerfully romantic in the sections,set to the "JOHANNA" motif, expressing the love of the lost: Johanna, then Lucy, and finally the crushing embrace of Vengeance and Salvation, the love of what can finally triumphantly be ATTAINED. "Theres a hole in the world/Like a great black pit/And it's filled with people/Who are filled with shit/And the vermin of the world inhabit it--BUT NOT FOR LONG!" Dark exultation that is almost ecstatic. "We all deserve to die!/ And I'll never see Johanna, No, I'll never hug my girl to me" A lament so charged that it is heightened and achingly sensuous. "And my Lucy lies in ashes/And I'll never see my girl again/But the work waits/I'm alive at last/And I'm full of joy!" This is truly erotic, musically and lyrically. This is the ONLY song from theatre that I've mesmerized known rock n'rollers with! It is that febrile, feverish, and heartshattering. A romance for LOVE LOST but VISION CREATED! Thank you, Mr, Sondheim. With transcendence and tumescence. All the other"romantic songs" sound like a little music box next to this mighty church organ. Of course, I confess to having written "Once upon a time there was light in my life/Now there's only love in the dark/Nothing I can do/A total eclipse of the heart."

"Sue Me" from GUYS AND DOLLS. I just love the mix of love and frustration, which is every relationship I've ever had! And my girlfriend was singing it when I first met her, so that's gotta mean something...

"I'll Know" from GUYS AND DOLLS. They realize they're made for each other during the song.

This is a hard question for me because I am such a romantic at heart and have so many favorite romantic theatre songs. "If I Loved You", "How Could I Ever Know", "Loving You" and "On My Way to You" (although technically not a theatre song) are all at the top for me. Perhaps the most romantic song to me will always be "If Ever I Would Leave You". First of all I think the stories of King Arthur and his Camelot are extremely romantic as they are written and this song, to me, captures that sense of romance to perfection. This is a song that speaks of the enduring nature of true love and the pain and joys associated with it without ever even mentioning the word "love". To me that is pretty spectacular. Add to those words that incredible sweeping melody line and a gorgeous rich baritone voice and it will leave me weak in the knees every time.

After weighing the obvious ("If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL) and the classic ("Tonight" from WEST SIDE STORY)and the sad (there are so many of these including "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Mis or "Not a Day Goes By" from MERRILY) John Carrafa and I both agreed that "I Chose Right" from BABY is probably the song that will always bring tears to our eyes with it's heartfelt lyrics and sentiment. "And I think about you, and I think about me loving you..."