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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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Managing Partner | aka New York
"Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. Adam Guettel’s music is unbelievably beautiful and this song touches me every time I listen to it.
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Funny Girl | Sing Street | Wicked
Kander and Ebb's “A Quiet Thing”. "Happiness comes in on tip-toe," Kander and Ebb express so delicately. "Well, what'd'ya know. It's a quiet thing." That's exactly how I feel when I turn and look at my husband, Henry. Thirty-seven years together, and here is happiness. It tip-toed in over the years. Here we are, it came true. A kind of miracle. A very quiet thing.
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Memphis | Mary Poppins | Beauty and the Beast
One is "In Buddy's Eyes" from FOLLIES. The other is not from a show. It's "Heart Like A Wheel," by Kate and Anna McGaringle. If there's a better, more poetic song about the devastation wrought by the loss of love, I don't know what it is.
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Flashdance
"Love To Me" from The Light In The Piazza
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The Threepenny Opera | Caligula | Parade | Les Miserables | Follies
Definitely "All The Things You Are" from VERY WARM FOR MAY
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A Strange Loop
I choose "Fifty Percent" from Ballroom.
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A Man for All Seasons
"What About Love" for The Color Purple. It goes from discovering you're in love with someone to discovering what love is to discovering you have found it.
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School of Rock | Doctor Zhivago | Guys and Dolls
My favorite love song is "How High The Moon" performed by Pat Suzuki. It wasn't a Broadway song, but she was a Broadway actress. That totally counts, right?
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Six | Beautiful | Kinky Boots
Firstly, West Side Story- all of it... "Tonight," "One Hand, One Heart," forget it! Then "Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. I also love "You Matter to Me" from Waitress. What a spectrum!
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SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK
"I've Never Been In Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS
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Anything Goes
Maybe I’m just in a Cole Porter land, but I pick "So In Love" from KISS ME, KATE. My girlfriend really hates when characters in musicals end up singing love songs to each other by the end of their first scene together. This song is completely the opposite. There are years of emotions and memories, good and bad, burning underneath everything sung. It’s such a haunting and passionate declaration of love.
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Schmigadoon | Hamilton | In the Heights
I'm going to say "I Have Dreamed "from The King and I. That is a classic, it's just for me, it's the epitome of classic musical theater. It's just a perfect song. And I actually find it completely dreamy. Can I have that relationship please?
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Wicked | The Wild Party | Lennon
"Too Many Mornings" from Follies. I love the lyric: "All that time wasted, merely passing through, time I could have spent so content wasting time with you."
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Love Never Dies | The Phantom of the Opera
My favorite Broadway love song is “The Phantom of the Opera”. Now that’s a different kind of love, but that’s real love, and it’s my favorite.
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Hello | Dolly! | The People in the Picture | LoveMusik | Children and Art | Wonderful Town | The King and I | Passion
It's going to sound selfish... but "Loving You" from Passion . I think it can mean a lot of different things in different moments.
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Merrily We Roll Along | My Fair Lady | Bombay Dreams
"Good Thing Going" from Merrily We Roll Along because I get to sing it eight times a week at the Laura Pels Theatre.
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Aladdin | Natasha | Pierre | and the Great Comet of 1812
My choice is “Maria” from West Side Story. It is such a romantic song that captures that youthful, hypnotic love that knocks you off your feet so hard, you are left dancing and chanting that person’s name in the streets.
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It Shoulda Been You | Once | Sunday in the Park with George | Assassins
Mine is "My Funny Valentine" because it's just the most beautiful song ever written
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The Lion King
I may be jumping the gun a bit but, "A Whole New World" from Aladdin is my favorite broadway love song. It reminds me of how I felt when I was first courting my wife.
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The Other Josh Cohen
My favorite Broadway love song is not from your typical fairytale romance. The song is “Bring Me to Light” and it’s the closing number of the musical Violet. The lyrics are about asking the people we care about most to help us through life’s journey and find our light in the darkness: “And as I go along I want you with me If I tell you my heart has been opened wide If I tell you I’m frightened If I show you the darkness I hold inside Will you bring me to light?”
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Kinky Boots | The Full Monty | City of Angels
My favorite Broadway love song is "Gee, Officer Krupke." It is the first song I learned. And really, what love affair is complete without social disease, cross dressing, and the request to Krup oneself?
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Hands on a Hardbody | Curtains | Minnelli on Minnelli | Steel Peir
My favorite Broadway love song is called "Somebody Older," which Debra Monk sang to me in Steel Pier when she was in love with me and I didn't think I was enough for her. So I broke away from her. And there's a beautiful, beautiful sensitive moment where someone says maybe you don't know what's best for you, I know what's best for you. And that will always be my favorite Broadway love song.
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Encores! Girl Crazy | Ugly Betty
"Cactus Time in Arizona" from GIRL CRAZY. It's really odd but somehow perfect.
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Mouline Rouge! | Fela!
One of my favorites since I was a kid was from Godspell. "By My Side" expresses a very deep love, but it also expresses a type of sacrifice that goes along with that love. When I was first introduced to that song as a teenager, I found it quite profound and mind-boggling.
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Aladdin | The Book of Mormon | The Drowsy Chaperone
I couldn't pick between these two, so I guess it's a tie. "The Music That Makes Me Dance" from FUNNY GIRL and "My Heart is So Full of You" from MOST HAPPY FELLA.
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Rocktopia
My favorite love song from Broadway is Funny Girl's "The Music That Makes Me Dance." I mean, anything Barbra Streisand does turns to gold for me, so her voice on anything. And Funny Girl is one of my favorites, all-time favorites, so that's mine.
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
What is my favorite Broadway love song? "Fairytale of New York" by the Pogues. It’s not strictly speaking ‘Broadway’ but it’s a bloody good song!
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Chicago
My favorite Broadway love song is “Come What May“ from Moulin Rouge! Considering the fact that my husband and I just recited our wedding vows to one another, this song really does sum it up. No matter what comes, whatever trials and tribulations, I’ll love you until my dying day. That’s it right there.
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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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Bronx Bombers | Lombardi | The Lion in Winter
"Origin of Love" from Hedwig. So psyched to see Neil Patrick Harris kill it in Michael Mayer's production this spring.

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