"MY FIRST LOVE SONG" from ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, SMELL OF THE CROWD

My favorite Broadway love song is kind of obscure, so I hope you'll go home and listen to it if you don't know it. It's called "The Shortest Day of the Year" from Boys from Syracuse, Rogers and Hart, in which the sentiment is, the shortest day of the year has the longest night of the year, and the longest night is the shortest night with you. Come on! And the melody is beautiful, and it's about the winter solstice, which I love. It's very cool and very beautiful.

“One Hand, One Heart" from West Side Story… First sung in NYC at The Winter Garden!

"My Funny Valentine." I think that's beautiful. It's about what real love is- not the showy flashy things but the true person inside.

If I had to chose a favorite Broadway love song, I think it would have to be Stephen Sondheim's "Losing My Mind." This song beautifully captures the ability of love's power to haunt, and I love that it can apply to anyone of any age, at any point in their life. It's universal, and yet deeply personal, as if it were written just for you. However, if we're speaking in terms of Valentine's Day, I guess it's not a really happy love song is 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.

"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma! I'm a sucker for the classics.

This is going to seem self-help-y but I am always blown away by "I'm Here" from The Color Purple, but it's not about romantic love it's about self love! You have to love yourself! Be your own Valentine - it's a made up holiday anyway.

"Bill," from Show Boat. I’m a sucker for nerdy love!

'I Chose Right' from Baby

"I'm Gone" from Hands on a Hardbody because it's two young people who fall in love because they share a common dream. It reminds me of my wife and me.

This is a song I’ve never actually seen performed in the show, but “If I Loved You” from Carousel I think is just one of the most stunning love songs. So dreamy the way that it segues from the spoken text into the song and back out again. I’ve only heard it recorded, I haven’t seen it on stage, but I love that one.

"I'd Give It All For You" from SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD.

It's not from Broadway, but it's a Steve Winwood song, "Higher Love". And then there have been a few covers of it over the years. I love that song. My wife and I, we could dance our buns off to that any day. It doesn't necessarily need to be Valentine's Day, but we probably will that day too.

My all time favorite love song is "My Romance" from Jumbo. Rogers and Hart say it all right there. What a score! Little Girl Blue was from it too which is one of my all time favorite fall out of love songs...

'The Music That Makes Me Dance' from Funny Girl

"Johanna" from SWEENEY TODD and "Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY.

"I Don't Know Why I Love You Like I Do"

"Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love. When you think about each and every one of those lyrics, it captures a little facet of what it feels like to fall in love, to be in love, or to lose a love. It's all of those stages. It's about who you become in going through the process.

My favorite Broadway love song is "There's A Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q. It is so true to real love. Love hurts.

“Somewhere” from West Side Story.

"If I Loved You" from Carousel because it's a love song that is in a form of a condition and it sort of creeps close to telling someone how they actually feel, but doesn't do it which is really smart and thrilling.

"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.

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.

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.

"Love To Me" from The Light In The Piazza

Definitely "All The Things You Are" from VERY WARM FOR MAY

I choose "Fifty Percent" from Ballroom.

"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.

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?