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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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Jitney | The Book of Mormon | Grey Gardens
"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years.
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The Lion King | The 39 Steps
"Not While I’m Around" from Sweeney Todd. Love it because I think it’s melodically & lyrically perfect and is both sweet & haunting at the same time.
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A View From the Bridge | Oliver! Annie Get Your Gun | Hart to Hart | The Vagina Monologues
Although my reasons are personal, my favorite song is "He Was Too Good To Me" by Rodgers and Hart.
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Doubt (Film)
I love "What More Can I Say" from FALSETTOS. It's gay and contemporary and beautiful; but it's also universal, so a woman could sing it too. I love Michael Rupert singing it from the original cast, and Tami Tappan's version on her album is equally gorgeous.
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Saturday Night Fever | Smokey Joe's Cafe | Beauty and the Beast
My choice is "This Nearly Was Mine." It's a song about loss, yes, but If you can find the version by Ed Alstrom (on "Acid Cabaret") I promise it will tear your heart out. The song aches with a missed opportunity, but you know that the singer is a changed person and will not let that chance pass again, which is ultimately most hopeful and romantic!
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The Present
I think it would have to be "Everyone Loves Louis" from Sunday in the Park with George. Not your usual romantic love song but a complicated funny plea, in a way. Dot sings of Louis the Baker, to George the Artist, who she truly loves but can't truly have. That excruciating pain of love. I sing it as my warm up song most nights when performing.
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New York New York
My favorite love song from a musical is probably It "Couldn’t Please Me More" from Cabaret. It’s written by one of the most indelible and nuanced composer/lyricist duos of all-time in Kander and Ebb. The song is beautiful, unique, and expresses the unavoidable connections between love and death, hope and loss. The song, like much of Cabaret, shows us the importance of a dim light when in complete darkness. And what better way is there to express love than by gifting a pineapple.
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The Cher Show | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
"On the Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY is my favorite Broadway love song. I think it's so poetic, dreamy, and romantic. Plus, my husband, Jonathan Shew, sent me a recording of him singing it when we were first dating and he sounded incredible :) I smile every time I listen to it!
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Superhero
"My Man" from Funny Girl because I love Barbra Streisand and it's heartbreaking and hopeful and beautiful and I love Funny Girl, everything about Funny Girl.
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The Phantom of the Opera
"They Were You" from The Fantasticks. Simple melody, simple lyrics, profound effect. It gets me every time. I can't stop there, though! "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady is another one. Simple, specific and incredibly powerful.
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Flashdance | Catch Me if You Can
“Only You” from Starlight Express.
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Dreamgirls | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Wicked
My favorite Broadway love song is "I Got Love" from a musical back in the day called Purlie
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House Plant
“I Am Changing” Dream Girls. I love it for many reasons but this particular line “All of my life I’ve been a fool / Who said I could do it all alone.” THAT for me is love.
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One Day
I am crazy for "A Little Bit in Love" from Wonderful Town. This song is the perfect combination of classic broadway romance with a modern train of thought. The first lyric is a simple sigh of relief, it's so dreamy!
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Ghost The Musical
"Trust" in Me by Etta James.
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Linda | Fish in the Dark | Bad Jews | Carrie
There really are too many to choose just one! Three of my favorites are "They Were You" from the Fantasticks, "Do You Love Me?" from Fiddler and "Fable" from Light in the Piazza. All extremely different but equally beautiful and moving songs about love. Also, when Tony and Maria first meet in West Side Story-- one of the most romantic scenes in theater ever.
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Mean Girls
I love Valentine’s Day, but I love Andrew Lippa more. Every song from Big Fish seems to track with falling or being in love, but especially “Time Stops.” If/when this is revived, please let me be 30, still southern and unemployed.
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Next Fall
My favorite song for Valentine's Day is "Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I. I like it because it exactly describes my feelings about my husband Larry.
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Mauritus | The Understudy | The Scene
This my vote: "Kiss the Girl," from THE LITTLE MERMAID by Ashman and Menken.
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The View Upstairs
"Say it Somehow” from The Light in the Piazza. For me, Adam Guettel's exhilarating score captures what falling in love feels like. ‘Say it Somehow’ expresses that lucky invigorating rush - passionately complex and supernaturally transportive.
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Aladdin | In the Heights | Mamma Mia!
"A Whole New World" of course! There's nothing better than a first date flying above the clouds around the world to one of Alan Menken’s most beautiful and well-known love songs! But then again maybe I'm biased ;)-
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Evita
My favorite love song from a musical is probably “Perfect for You” from Next to Normal because I’m rehearsing that, so I’m pretty biased. But I feel like both the music and the lyrics are stunning and so romantic.
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Fiddler on the Roof | The Glass Menagerie
"No One Else" from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. I thought it was such an exciting new musical and I remember leaving the theater thinking, “Wow, I would love for someone to sing that song to me!” Hah!
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Jersey Boys
"The Shortest Day of the Year" from BOYS FROM SYRACUSE...though it actually could be any of the love songs in BOYS FROM SYRACUSE from "This Can't Be Love" to "You Have Cast Your Shadow on the Sea." These songs all have the most tender and delicate melodies and such perfectly, simple lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Of any love song that I have sung, "The Shortest Day of the Year" is my absolute favorite. It's so romantic and its message is so basic and so heartfelt.
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Beautiful
My favorite musical love song has always been and will forever be “Purlie” from Purlie. It was my first song from my days at American Musical and Drama Acadamy; and then, it became my first professional audition song. I got lots of callbacks with it too.
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Hadestown | Once on This Island | Sunset Boulevard | After Midnight | Mary Poppins | The Wedding Singer | La Cage Aux Folles
"Still Hurting" from The Last Five Years. Being in a relationship for multiple years, I understand the ebbs and flows of loving someone. Lots of laughs and sometimes tears. Jamie and Kathy always feel to me like they are in the midst of a struggle to love each other while on the surface it feels like they are DOA. THE LYRICS!!!!
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Something Rotten | Wicked | Gypsy | Into the Woods
My favorite love song is currently "It All Fades Away" from Jason Robert Brown's The Bridges of Madison County with Andrew Samonsky singing the sh*t out of it.... to meeeeeee.
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Mamma Mia | Disaster
"Gold" from Once. Perhaps I'm biased because it's my favorite show ever, but "And I love her so, I wouldn't trade her for gold..." I mean, COME ON! Perfect.
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The King and I | Here Lies Love
"I Have Dreamed" from The King and I. I think the melody has love woven into the fabric!
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A View From the Bridge
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. Not only is it a beautifully written song, but its brilliant in the way it harnesses the power of the word "if." To watch Billy and Julie navigate falling in love despite the fact that they are both so scared, is just amazing.

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