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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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Girl from the North Country | Unexpected Joy | The Capeman | Jekyll & Hyde
Hands down..."And I Am Telling You, I'm Not Going" from DREAMGIRLS! This song rips your heart out every time! I don't think there's been a song like this ever... I'll never forget seeing Dreamgirls in previews on Broadway and after Jennifer Holiday sang this song ending Act 1, I was frozen in my seat, bawling my eyes out. BRAVO Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen!
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Steel Magnolias | The Vagina Monologues | (Upcoming) Impressionism | Chapter Two | The Goodby Girl
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "If You Go Away" from JACQUES BREL.
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Wicked | Next to Normal | Altar Boyz
"Unworthy of Your Love" from ASSASSINS. It is not your typical love song.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
My favorite Broadway love song is "Love Don't Turn Away" from 110 in the Shade. I love the melody and the idea of telling love that you are ready for it!
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Kimberly Akimbo | Hello | Dolly! | Cry-Baby | Wicked
“Screw Loose” written by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger. Because is it really love if it’s not clinically certified crazy love?
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Jersey Boys | Bat Boy | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The most romantic Broadway Love song of all time is of course "ONE HAND, ONE HEART"..it always makes the little hairs on my neck stand up. As to why, well the ideal of perfect love overcoming all obstacles is the most romantic dream I could imagine.
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Girl from the North Country
My favorite love song is Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific. Besides being an incredible song, it’s also the show where I met my wife. - “The sound of her laughter will sing in your dreams.” So romantic!
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Ain't Too Proud | Summer | Jersey Boys | Doctor Zhivago | Jesus Christ Superstar
My Broadway Valentine's love song pick is “ Not While I’m Around.” I spent my last fifty dollars to get seats for Sweeney Todd back in the day at the Uris Theatre. I lucked out. Somebody had just turned in two prize seats in row six. It was the first date with my daughter’s eventual mom. We barely knew each other. The song helped. Thanks to Sondheim!
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Superhero
"A Heart Full of Love" from Les Miserables because I love the song and it's just so pretty.
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The Lion King
"I (Who Have Nothing)" from Smokey Joe’s Café. I performed this song and show in college. It was very easy to relate to and tell the story as there was a beautiful young lady I was interested in, but there were some “obstacles” in the way. So every night I would perform that song thinking about her. To make a long story short, years later that amazing young lady is my wife and the mother of our two daughters! A true love story.
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PRICILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT
So, my favorite Broadway love song is "What about Love" from THE COLOR PURPLE. When I saw the show and Celie and Shug sang that song tears started to roll down my face. I feel that even if there weren't lyrics expressing that it's a love song, the instrumental part will make you feel the pure and honest love that one may have for another. And, it's just a beautiful song- it's just that simple. Get into it.
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Mrs. Doubtfire | Honeymoon in Vegas | Chaplin
I think I've got to go back to "Someone to Watch Over Me." I think it's a perfectly written song. I really do. I think it's one of the great songs in the American Songbook and it speaks to love in its simplest and purest form.
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The Phantom of the Opera
My choice would be the song "You are Love" from Showboat. I was blessed to star opposite my husband, Duane McDevitt, in a production at Allenberry Playhouse about six years into our now 17-year marriage! At first, I found it a bit hokey to be singing this love song with my husband every night. I was irked when his staging ideas in rehearsal didn't gel with mine! I soon realized how amazingly fortunate we were to be working actors for an entire summer together, and starring opposite each other. We have gotten to sing that song several times since in concert and even a wedding. We probably aren't going to be considered for young romantic roles anymore. But, I still feel like a beautiful young ingenue when he looks at me with a smile and starts to sing the opening lines of the song.
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Bigfoot! | Funny Girl
I'll keep it classic. I love "A Case of You" by Joni Mitchell. She's just keeping it real, keeping it from the soul. That's my answer.
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We're Gonna Die | A Bronx Tale | Soul Doctor
I really only listen to breakup songs, but I like "Flowers" from Hadestown.
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Little Women | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Les Miserables
My favorite love song is "Love Walked In" by George Gershwin.
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On the Twentieth Century | Nice Work If You Can Get It. Memphis | Spamalot | Wonderful Town
I have two. For my wife it would be "So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate. For my Daughter: "More I Cannot Wish You" from Guys and Dolls.
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Angus McIndoe Restaurant
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.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | Memphis
"Ain't Nothin' but a Kiss" from the musical Memphis. The sparks flew with my dance partner as we danced together during that song. We are married now and I blame the drums and hot choreography for the beginning of our love story.
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Ruthless | Ethel Merman's Broadway
After seeing Bernadette Peters sing “I Got Lost In Your Arms” in Annie Get Your Gun, it’s been my favorite love song since.
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First Down | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | American Idiot
"The Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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Mamma Mia | Chess
"How Could I Ever Know" from The Secret Garden. As only theater can do, this love duet transcends the worldly constrictions of their love. "Sure as you breath I am there beside you." Beautiful!
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ANYTHING GOES
My choice for most romantic Broadway love song...would be "Too Many Mornings" from FOLLIES. Perhaps because I sang it, (ya think?) and because it seems appropriate for the Stephen Sondheim Theater.
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Other World
The entire musical Come From Away is a love song! It's a love song to the rest of the world.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour | Can-Can
"Fanny" from Fanny. It's my favorite because a sailor sings about how if he hadn't already given his heart away to the sea, he would give it to his soul mate, Fanny. But he must follow his dream and leave Fanny behind while he journeys out and sails. The melody is gorgeous and every time he repeats her name you can tell his sweet little tenor voice dies a little bit and it just breaks my heart. The song isn't overdone which is refreshing, and as Show People can't we all relate to putting our craft first before pretty much everything? It's like the "What I did for Love" of a sailor in 1954.
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Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway
I would have to say "What Would I Do?" from FALSETTOLAND. Wistful, full. Brings me to tears everytime. And it has the word 'shmaltz' in it, so it would have to be the most romantic for a Jew like me...
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The Heart of Rock nd Roll
“Love To Me” by Adam Guettel from The Light in the Piazza. This is the embodiment of romance and pure love. From the gentle arpeggio accompaniment to the lyrics describing how the things that make us love someone are the simple everyday things that are sometimes overlooked. I just melt every time I hear it.
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The Jonathan Larson Project
I do love "The Little Things You Do Together" from Company. I just think it's a brilliantly composed song and we were just playing it in the room the other day and it's absolutely fabulous. So that's what I would think of.
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Creative
Aladdin | Newsies | Beauty and the Beast | A Bronx Tale: The Musical | The Little Mermaid
I think my favorite Broadway love song, off the top of my head 'cause there's so many, is "One Hand, One Heart." I just know that when I saw West Side Story and I felt that moment, it was just heartbreaking. Beautiful and heartbreaking. The intimacy, the simplicity of it. But there's a lot.
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MJ | West Side Story
My favorite Broadway love song is "I Got Love" from the musical Purlie. This song warms my heart and is a reminder of how beautiful love is, not just romantically but in every aspect of life. Also... MELBA MOORE.

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