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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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Honeymoon in Vegas | Annie | Sunday in the Park with George
I will say, "All the Things You Are" because I feel like that's a traditional love song but the core progressions are so unexpected that it makes it so interesting and full and rich. It's not a "paint by numbers" love song. It's really complicated.
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas | Into the Woods | Annie Get Your Gun
"Come To Me, Bend To Me" from BRIGADOON.
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The Book of Mormon | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
'Will He Like Me' from She Loves Me
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The Robber Bridegroom | The Long Shrift
“Tonight” from West Side Story
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The Cher Show
What is my favorite Broadway love song? Is that a trick question?! There are so many good ones to choose from, but I have to say it’s a tie between “Ten Minutes Ago” from Cinderella, “So Mane People” from Saturday Night, and “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” from The Lion King. What can I say? I’m a hopeless romantic :)
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Machinal | Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
"Changing My Major" from Fun Home and "What Is It About Her?" from Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party.
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Moulin Rouge! | West Side Story | In the Heights
My favorite Broadway love song is “I Could Have Danced All Night”. It’s old school.
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The Woodsman
It was unsettling when I realized how many love songs that I adore are actually sad, break up songs. I'm gonna choose to not look too deeply into that. But in keeping with that theme, there's a video on YouTube somewhere of beautiful, older Dorothy Loudon ( the original Ms. Hannigan) at some Sondheim celebration concert singing a mash up of "Losing My Mind" from Follies and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" from Company that was both very moving and so, so funny. She goes from being totally forlorn and melancholic to then being so angry to then just going completely bonkers. It's great. 'Cause you know, it's just like how love is, right?!
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Bandstand | Grease | Bonnie and Clyde | Cinderella
My favorite, most romantic Broadway love-song ever is "Some Enchanted Evening." In addition to the gorgeous melody and orchestration, the lyrics are so beautifully pure and romantic. It's about love at first sight, that unexplainable feeling of finding true love from across a crowded room. It makes me cry almost every time I hear it.
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Celebrity Autobiography | Comedian
"On the Street Where you Live" from MY FAIR LADY.
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Bandstand
"Hero and Leander" by Adam Guettel (from Myths and Hymns) Adam Guettel is a genius. Somehow he has found music and lyrics to translate the peaks and crashes of love, into song. Geoff Packard.
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Flashdance | Rock of Ages | Legally Blonde
“Send in the Clowns” is the best unrequited love song.
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School of Rock | Newsies the Musical
I love the song, "Something to Believe In" from Newsies. The music is so beautiful and I absolutely loved hearing Kara Lindsay and Corey Cott belt their faces off each night!
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The 39 Steps | Curtains | The Woman in White
I choose "Love to Me" from THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA as the most romantic song EVER!! It's what every girl wants to hear from her boy.
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The Lost Boys | The Music Man
It's not really a love song, but I feel like it's kind of perfect for Valentine's Day. Well, maybe it is a love song... It's "Finishing the Hat" from Sunday in the Park with George. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. I think it's Stephen Sondheim's masterpiece. I mean, I will go to sleep to that song. I will listen to it on the subway. That is the song that I will stand behind for the rest of my life.
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The Music of Neil Berg | Li'l Abner
It would have to be "When Did I Fall in Love?" from FIORELLO, music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. It never gained the popularity as most of the others - but, it sure was a great one.
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A Bronx Tale
"On The Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY. The perfect match of music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. When it goes into the bridge "Oh that towering feeling," I'm gone.
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Trip of Love
My favorite is "With Every Breath I Take" from City of Angels because it's hauntingly beautiful and complex.
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The Phantom of the Opera | Lestat | Side Show
I'm gonna go with "Tonight" from West Side Story. I still get chills during the intro, "Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever." It's so innocent and pure and then it erupts into this musical heart beat of "suns and moons" that's so primal and thrilling. By the final "sleep well and when you dream, dream of me...", I'm gone!
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Once | Cyrano de Bergerac
I would say my favorite love song, especially for Valentine’s Day and equally poignant at weddings, is "Colour My World" by Chicago. That tune is just a beautiful, simple but deep, powerful love song.
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Tuck Everlasting | Soul Doctor | Wonderland | A Chorus Line
It may not be my favorite love song of all time, but my boyfriend and I have an adorable relationship with it's own brand of silliness. He is in finance and not in theatre, and for his birthday this past year, I wanted to give him a present that would sum up our relationship, so I recorded Heisler and Goldrich's "There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do" as a solo at Speakersonic Studios in Brooklyn. I hired a full band and we jammed out on my little untraditional, but completely full of "love" song.
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Falsettos | Prince of Broadway | The Book of Mormon
It's definitely *sings* "In whatever time we have, for as long as we are living" from Children of Eden.
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Endlings
“My Heart Is So Full of You” from Most Happy Fella
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Dear Evan Hansen | Tuck Everlasting | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | How To Succeed... | Little Me
My favorite Valentine love song is kind of an anti-love song, “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from Jesus Christ Superstar. Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Kinky Boots | Smokey Joe's Café | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I'm gonna say "So In Love" by Cole Porter. To me, it sounds like being unable to help the fact that you love someone. The idea of falling in love happens in spite of yourself sometimes.
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2 | The Merchant of Venice
Probably hve to be "Heaven” from Top Hat, or if I am in character (King Henry VIII), "Greensleeves"!
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Cats | School of Rock | On the Twentieth Century | Ragtime
My favorite Broadway love song is new to me, and it’s actually in our show, it’s called “Love Never Dies” from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies, and I had never heard this song until I knew I was coming to do this show, and I wanted to make sure I listened to some of Andrew’s music that I wasn’t as familiar with. And so, I listened to the album for Love Never Dies, which I shamefully had never heard, and that song is evocative and beautiful, and it captures a mood. I’m living for it right now. So, “Love Never Dies”, favorite Broadway love song.
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Look Back in Anger | The Importance of Being Earnest
'Somewhere' from West Side Story breaks my heart. My favorite person singing it is my friend and phenomenal performer Nina Negri.
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Wit | Jitney
I think one of my favorite Broadway love songs is "Some Enchanted Evening." I know it's super old school and it's not a full-on "I love you, I love you" but it's that spark that happens when you first feel the feeling. I grew up listening to one of the versions of the soundtrack to South Pacific. The concept of seeing someone across a crowded room and that magic that happens always got me and it still does.
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White Christmas | 42nd Street | The Green Bird
I was raised on jazz and movie musicals so my favorite is straight from the standards. Having just done a wonderful Irving Berlin musical, it may seem like I am just choosing what is fresh in my mind, but Berlin is timeless for me, and his music draws on memories of my wedding. My husband and I danced our first dance to an Ella Fitzgerald's version of "Always". I know its not necessarily a traditional Broadway song, but its song that speaks to me with such touching simplicity: Not for just an hour, Not for just a day, Not for just a year, But always.

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