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.

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

My pick is "If Ever I Would Leave You" from CAMELOT.

One of my favorite romantic Broadway love songs is "My Heart is So Full of You" by Frank Loesser from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA

My favorite Broadway love song is “Not While I’m Around” from Sweeney Todd because I like blood.

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.

For me, the most romantic song ever written for the theatre is DEFINITELY "Epiphany" from SWEENEY TODD. Not an obvious choice, but consider: an overwhelmingly powerful outpouring of dark, obsessive, romantic yearning, loss, and emotional waves and torrents. It is powerfully romantic in the sections,set to the "JOHANNA" motif, expressing the love of the lost: Johanna, then Lucy, and finally the crushing embrace of Vengeance and Salvation, the love of what can finally triumphantly be ATTAINED. "Theres a hole in the world/Like a great black pit/And it's filled with people/Who are filled with shit/And the vermin of the world inhabit it--BUT NOT FOR LONG!" Dark exultation that is almost ecstatic. "We all deserve to die!/ And I'll never see Johanna, No, I'll never hug my girl to me" A lament so charged that it is heightened and achingly sensuous. "And my Lucy lies in ashes/And I'll never see my girl again/But the work waits/I'm alive at last/And I'm full of joy!" This is truly erotic, musically and lyrically. This is the ONLY song from theatre that I've mesmerized known rock n'rollers with! It is that febrile, feverish, and heartshattering. A romance for LOVE LOST but VISION CREATED! Thank you, Mr, Sondheim. With transcendence and tumescence. All the other"romantic songs" sound like a little music box next to this mighty church organ. Of course, I confess to having written "Once upon a time there was light in my life/Now there's only love in the dark/Nothing I can do/A total eclipse of the heart."

Every year around Valentines Day, the Pointer Sisters continue to inspire me: "I want somebody with a slow hand I want a lover with an easy touch I want somebody who will spend some time Not come and go in a heated rush" So many of the guys I meet take the joy out of lovemaking with their hurried, desperate, orgasm-driven, almost violent approach. But if I have to pick a favorite love song from a Broadway show (and I wouldn't dream of choosing my own song, "He Died Inside Me," from my unproduced musical Private Benjamin), I guess I would have to choose "Secret Soul" from the deeply misunderstood Broadway musical, Jane Eyre. A soaring, plangent yelp of yearning, unrequited love. Kleenex, please--and if you have Kleenex with Aloe Vera, I would appreciate the extra relief! xx, Jacob Sterling

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)

"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

"Sue Me" from GUYS AND DOLLS. I just love the mix of love and frustration, which is every relationship I've ever had! And my girlfriend was singing it when I first met her, so that's gotta mean something...

"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).

'My Blanket and Me' from You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way" from NINE and "I Believe" from SPRING AWAKENING. Gorgeous, both of them!

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.

"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.

"My Funny Valentine," which is from Babes in Arms, which is when Chris [Fitzgerald] and I first met. We didn't sing that song in the show. We sang "I Wish I Were in Love Again", but at the end of the show, the entire company sang it. Actually, Babes in Arms ended on Valentine's Day! And so we held hands on Valentine's Day and sang "My Funny Valentine" and then that night went on our first date.

"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.

“I Have a Love” from West Side Story.

“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.

"IF I LOVED YOU" from Carousel.

"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.

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.

"Somewhere" from West Side Story

"If I Loved You" from Carousel. Just the best melody, most beautiful lyrics of all time. Best sentiment.

I love "Til There Was You" from The Music Man. That is what sticks out in my head. I also love "We Have So Little to Be Sure Of", even though it isn't lovey dovey- it's a bout people going separate ways, but I think it's beautiful.

My choice is "Love To Me" from The Light in the Piazza.

"Somewhere" from West Side Story. It's a very obvious choice, but there is something so haunting about the way that melody enters.

There is this album by Chris Thile and he plays the mandolin. He wrote this album in response to 2016 and what happened politically and it's called "I Made This For You" and it's about it's like a love story for our country really, and it's complicated it's not easy but it's a choice it's the kind of love that's a choice as opposed to a feeling and that is worked for and cultivated and uh it moves my soul.