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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 Prom | Finding Neverland | Hair
It might not be the most romantic song on earth, but "With So Little To Be Sure Of" from ANYONE CAN WHISTLE always has represented love and relationships and gets me feeling all mushy inside!
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Rock of Ages
I love 'When I First Saw You' from Dreamgirls. It is just a love letter through song... "When I first saw you, I said 'Oh my, that's my dream, that's my dream". What is more beautiful than seeing someone and knowing that is the someone who you have dreamt about your whole life? It's such a short song but it's so full of love. I'm a sucker for love, what can I say?
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An American in Paris | Holler if Ya Hear Me | A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder | Romeo and Juliet
"Song on the Sand" from La Cage Aux Folles. It means a lot to me because it's from my first Tony Award winning musical in 1983. It's a love will conquer all kinda attitude.
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Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends | Chicago | Gypsy
I mean, one of the beautiful ones is "Not a Day Goes By." It's a beautiful song, isn't it? Just hearing that first melody without even the words is beautiful in itself. You go, oh, here we go! And whoever you're thinking of, gosh... is just someone that you just think, yeah, you're in my heart forever.
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Beardo
One of my favorites (at least my favorite right now) is "With So Little to Be Sure Of" from Anyone Can Whistle. It's such a simple yet complex look at a relationship while you're in it, but also looking at it from the future, after the relationship is over. Because who doesn't love a little bit of ambivalence in their love songs?
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General Manager - Cats | Sunset Boulevard | Mamma Mia! | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Flower Drum Song | Legally Blonde | Gypsy | Salome | Billy Elliot: The Musical | 9 to 5
"I Have Dreamed" from The King and I.
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Beautiful: the Carole King Musical | Unbroken Circle | Closer Than Ever | Avenue Q.
My favorite Broadway love song (right now, these things are always changing) is "Being Alive" from Company. Like so many Sondheim songs, the beautiful melody is deceptive, and the lyrics reveal ambivalence and conflictedness. The singer realizes that love is going to hurt, it's going to be inconvenient, it's going to downright suck sometimes, but that it's all worth it because truly loving is truly living. It's a realistic love song for grownups, not a candy-coated, idealistic one, and I dig that. It's also my favorite right now because Jessie Mueller sang a gorgeous rendition of it at my wedding this past October, and hearing the song reminds me of that magical evening.
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Hands on a Hardbody | Billy Elliot
A favorite love song written for Broadway... "My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms. The simplicity of finding the one thing only you could love. It has also been recorded on over 1300 albums by over 600 artists. But, the first song that came to my mind was, "God Only Knows" from Good Vibrations. A song that Paul McCartney has called one of the greatest love songs ever written. I got to sing that song in the show. I also met my wife, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, during that show and sang it to her on the altar.
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Waitress | The Curious Incident of the Dog in Nightime | Queen of the Night | American Idiot
Gershwin’s "Embraceable You." The songs lyrics speak of two people in love but the chord structure is minor and feels wistful, even sad. I love those two dichotomies together... because that’s so often, love.
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A View From the Bridge | How to be a Good Italian Daughter
"Love to Me" from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
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LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"What About Love" from THE COLOR PURPLE
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The Lyons | Gypsy
Valentine's Day is my wedding anniversary with Steve Bakunas. Eight years this year. One of my favorites is "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful" from Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, now open on Broadway and soon be a huge success. Its gorgeous music brings us hope and joy! I love this song in particular because it is honest and romantic!
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Just In Time
This is very appropriate for this Valentine's Day for me. Connie Francis has a song called "I'm Nobody's Baby." It goes, "I'm nobody's baby. I wonder why each night and day I pray that the Lord up above can send me down somebody to love." Sad and beautiful. That's for me.
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The Heart of Rock and Roll | If/Then | Caroline | Or Change
My favorite Broadway love song is "Always Starting Over" from If/Then. I’ve always been struck by the idea that the most powerful thing about love or loving someone is that at some point it’s going to end, either because one person passes on or because the relationship ends. But we love anyway, and that, to me, is quite powerful. Always Starting Over acknowledges the pain of loss while celebrating the time had together and the challenge and hope in carrying on and moving forward.
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Groundhog Day | Aladdin | Honeymoon in Vegas | Anything Goes | Mamma Mia!
The most romantic Broadway love song ever is "Something Good" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC
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Trip of Love | On the Town | Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella
I think my favorite Broadway love song would have to be "Some Other Time" from On the Town. I think it captures beautifully the uncertainty of love and the idea that if you truly love someone you have to let them go live their best life.
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Mary Poppins | War Paint | Gigi
"Say it Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza.
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Tuck Everlasting | South Pacific
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face” by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner. The rise and fall of the melody and Higgins’ realization in the lyric of just how deep he has fallen in love gets me every time. A perfect song.
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The Perplexed | My Name is Asher Lev | You're a Good Man | Charlie Brown
Ok. Full disclosure. Not since I made lists of baby names for my kids have I had as many sleepless nights as I have had trying to choose my favorite Broadway love song, but "Time After Time" - the gorgeous Jule Styne song - is a constant in my head, especially as sung by my beloved friend, Judy Kuhn. I don't know if I would have believed you if you told me that, years after I first heard her sing it, she would end up singing me down the aisle at my own wedding, but she did!
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Moulin Rouge! | Here Lies Love | Murder Ballad
My favorite Broadway love song is “Do You Love Me?” from Fiddler on the Roof. It reminds me of my grandparents and the nature of their relationship, and every time it just makes me cry.
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Kinky Boots
If we include Off-Broadway, "Times Like This" from Lucky Stiff. But I think my favorite one is "You Rule My World" from The Full Monty. I loved seeing that song on tour (and for auditions).
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Superhero
"If I Loved You" from Carousel. A deeply human and real love song between two amazing characters.
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The Lion King
There are so many amazing Broadway love songs but I'm going with an oldie but goodie. "Tonight" from West Side Story. Classic and timeless.
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HAIR | Lennon | Sidd | RENT
"Loving You" from PASSION "In Whatever Time We Have" from CHILDREN OF EDEN comes in close second "Forever Yours" from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND comes in 3rd.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
"Some Enchanted Evening." Mostly because it reminds me of a horrible knock knock joke my mom used to tell: Knock Knock. Who's there? Sam and Janet. Sam and Janet who? SaammandJannnnnted Evvenninnngg. It doesn't really work but I loved the singing!
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Billy Elliot | A Chorus Line
'Make Our Garden Grow' from Candide
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Falsettos | Head Over Heels | Spring Awakening
"As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver. It's so awful especially now but I think it's about wanting to share your life and give something to somebody else and how you sometimes feel destroyed if you can't give your love.
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Back to the Future | Almost Famous
I think it’s a tie between "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Misérables and "Love Song" from Pippin. I think they capture the small details of love that are so complicated but interesting. Obviously, "A Little Fall of Rain" being the more heart wrenching side, while "Love Song" is about the little heartwarming things that we take for granted until we are in love.
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Hollywood Bowl
Most romantic? "One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story - can't hear that song without a lump in my throat, Most deliciously romantic? "Our Private World" from On the Twentieth Century!
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | On The Town | An American in Paris
One of my favorite Broadway Love songs is "Lucky To Be Me" from On The Town. The show has such a special place in my heart and the melody and lyrics complement each other so beautifully. But since that's a solo, if I had to pick a Broadway love duet, I'd choose "Love Song" from Pippin or "Ten Minutes Ago" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella.

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