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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 Book of Mormon | The Fantasticks | Amazing Race
For me, Off-Broadway counts just as much as Broadway! So I'd have to say a little section of "I Can Do Better Than That," from The Last Five Years. The lyrics are just... perfect: "You don't have to change a thing, just stay with me. I want you, and you, and nothing but you. Miles and piles of you. Finally I'll have something worthwhile to think of each morning. You, and you, and nothing but you. No substitution will do..." Simple, honest, and straight-forward. And basically what I think every time I take a look at my girlfriend.
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JERSEY BOYS
"Angels" by Robin Thicke
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Machinal | A View From the Bridge
For me, It's "Dulcinea" from MAN OF LA MANCHA. I saw Raul Julia do it on tour in San Francisco when I was 12, so maybe I'm just in the thrall of my own nostalgic associations, but I think there's something massively appealing about the argument that our idealized, poetic notions of the people we love are sometimes truer and more powerful than reality.
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Rock of Ages | Priscilla Queen of the Desert | Grease | Hairspray
I love the lyrics for "What You Mean to Me" from Finding Neverland. I think it's so intimate and sweet.
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Next to Normal | Jersey Boys | Side Show
"How Could I Ever Know" from THE SECRET GARDEN. It is a heartbreaking beautiful piece.
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Othello | Wicked | Girl from the North Country
I love "Without You" from Rent. Aside from the fact that it's just so beautiful, it speaks to me because without that person that gives you life, without that person that makes you smell the flowers, that makes you see the sunrise, it means nothing unless you're sharing it with the person you care about.
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Titanique | Between the Lines | Cruel Intentions | Kinky Boots | Rock of Ages | Wicked
"It All Fades Away" From Bridges of Madison County is hands down my favorite Broadway love song! Pair Jason Robert Brown's music with Steven Pasquale's voice and I'm done for!
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Superhero | Cats | The Color Purple (original and revival)
"Dulcinea" from Man of La Mancha. We all have someone in our lives that makes our heart beat faster and our blood boil that much more.
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Natasha | Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
I'm a sucker for Cole Porter and that era of musical theatre, so my favorite Broadway love song is "So In Love" from Kiss Me, Kate. It's got such a haunting melody, on top of gorgeous chord progressions. The lyrics are also heartbreaking, and ultimately so playable in the acting. I just think it's stunning, and it gets a reprise at the end. Beautiful.
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Jane Eyre | Jagged Little Pill | On the Town | Million Dollar Quartet | Cry-Baby | Company
Mine is "My Heart is So Full of You" from The Most Happy Fella. It was in my wedding, so it will always be one of my faves. The melody is so beautiful, but I love the poetry of it.
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WONDERLAND | MARTIN SHORT: FAME BECOMES ME
The romantic song that I'm very fond of is, "They Can't Take That Away From Me" by the Gershwin Brothers. I love the specific lyrics. This person sings off key, holds their knife weird, and sips their tea funny, yet they haunt my dreams and changed my life! I find it so charming and sweet.
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Natasha | Pierre | and the Great Comet of 1812 | Myths and Hymns | The Kid | The Threepenny Opera
It's a tie between “My Heart is So Full Of You” from The Most Happy Fella (Liz Callaway's version will floor you) and “Love To Me” from The Light In The Piazza
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Mothers and Sons | Big Fish | Yank! | Ragtime | 110 In The Shade | Master Harold and the Boys
My pick is "If Ever I Would Leave You" from CAMELOT.
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Columbia Records | Release Planning
One of my favorite romantic Broadway love songs is "My Heart is So Full of You" by Frank Loesser from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
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Avenue Q
My favorite Broadway love song is a tie between So Many People from Saturday Night and, though not a 'traditional' love song, "Somebody Somewhere" from The Most Happy Fella.
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Girl from the North Country | Shrek | Cry-Baby | High Fidelity | Tarzan
The Broadway love songs that are my favorites tend to be about unrequited love or love that can't exist. I have a top 5. 5. "Unexpected Song" (Song and Dance); 4. "Unusual Way" (Nine); 3. "Not a Day Goes By" (Merrily We Roll Along); 2. "How Could I Ever Know" (The Secret Garden); 1. "Something Wonderful" (The King and I)
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Forbidden Broadway
"Too Many Mornings" Follies, Sondheim "So Many People" Saturday Night, Sondheim "The Way You Look Tonight" Kern and Fields "Love to Me" Light in the Piazza, Guettel
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WONDERLAND
"There's a Fine, Fine Line" from AVENUE Q....I mean it's a love song, a one sided love song, and ultimately speaks of the confusing complexity of love. I remember seeing the show and turning to the person next to me and saying, "There is a puppet making me cry!" And of course "You Rule My World" from THE FULL MONTY. So perfectly written for both Act 1 and Act 2. A song about how real love sees past imperfections, and only sees the person....Bwahhhh ah ah! (sobs).
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Tootsie | Hand to God | On A Clear Day You Can See Forever | Avenue Q | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
'My Blanket and Me' from You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
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Les Miserables | Fiddler on the Roof
Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way" from NINE and "I Believe" from SPRING AWAKENING. Gorgeous, both of them!
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Little Bear Ridge Road | It's Only a Play | The Front Page
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Rock of Ages | The Boy From Oz | The Full Monty | Titanic
Here's my two cents... Hands down, the most beautiful and romantic song of all time is "All the Things You Are," by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. If it's been awhile since you've heard it, or you have never heard it (shame on you), I strongly encourage giving it a listen. It's purely the most amazing combination of lyric and melody as has ever been written. "...someday my happy arms will hold you, and someday I'll know that moment divine...when all the things you are, are mine." It just doesn't get better, and when I sang it to a former girlfriend she about died. Eventually we broke up, and it turns out she was not real nice - kinda mean. But that doesn't change how awesome the song is.
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American Psycho | Evita | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
"Falling Slowly" from Once. The simple, yet profoundly human poetry; that acoustic guitar; the melody that seeps through pores into veins, and drips through places in your heart you may have never known were cracking or already broken.
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Puffs
"People Will Say We're in Love" from Oklahoma! Maybe I'm too influenced by the Hugh Jackman/Trevor Nunn/NT version, but I always find Curly and Laurie throwing caution to the wind and finally admitting, at long last, that dammit they're in love with each other is incredibly moving. Similar to Beatrice and Benedick at the end of Much Ado.
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Flashdance | Urinetown
“I Have a Love” from West Side Story.
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Irish Rep’s O’Casey Cycle
“Falling Slowly” - Once. I love this song so much, it has such a beautiful haunting quality that really embodies that indescribable feeling of falling in love.
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Liza's At the Palace!
"IF I LOVED YOU" from Carousel.
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Hamilton | Matilda The Musical
"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last 5 Years...not only is it a gorgeous song, but it's the only song in The Last 5 Years where the stories come together. I have never seen this show live, but it always leaves me close to tears when I listen to the album.
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Urinetown | Kiss Me | Kate | Newsies
I hate to be this person, but my favorite love song in musical theater is "Follow Your Heart" from Urinetown. And I just believe that it's so simple and it's both about loving yourself as a person and knowing how you wanna be a person in the world and that we're all good people even if we make mistakes. And when we see that in another person, that allows ourselves to open ourselves up and fall in love.
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Endlings
"Somewhere" from West Side Story

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