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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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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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Be More Chill | Freaky Friday | Benny and Joon
"If I Loved You" from Carousel. Just the best melody, most beautiful lyrics of all time. Best sentiment.
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Chicago | Jekyll & Hyde
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.
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Bare
My choice is "Love To Me" from The Light in the Piazza.
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Dead Outlaw | Natasha | Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
"Somewhere" from West Side Story. It's a very obvious choice, but there is something so haunting about the way that melody enters.
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The Jonathan Larson Project | Be More Chill | If/Then | A Chorus Line
I love "What I Did for Love" because I have such a connection, being a part of the revival cast because it's so true. It's like, it's not all hearts. It's not all easy. But despite that, despite the hardships, we choose it anyway. And I think that's such a beautiful message.
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The White Chip | Socrates | You Can't Take It With You
"Sunday in the Park with George" because I'm in love with the person who sang it last- my wife, Annaleigh Ashford. Maybe it's not a traditional love song, but seeing her do it on opening night was a moment I will never forget.
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Wolf Hall: Parts 1 and 2
This is a tricky one… one of my favorite songs ever is "I Loves You Porgy" from Porgy And Bess, but my favorite version is Nina Simone’s which I know is not strictly a Broadway song! It’s haunting and filled with fear, but almost childlike in its simplicity.
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The Lion King
"You Should Be Loved" from Side Show. I choose this song because Its written in such a way and with such beautiful imagery that it allows Jake to not only profess his love but simultaneously show her what true love should look like and that she should settle for nothing less than that- even in the face of rejection and hurt. It beautifully reminds us that there are no conditions as it relates to loving someone.
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The Addams Family | Rock of Ages
"Love to Me" from Light in the Piazza
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Tina | Nine | Macbeth | Electra
"I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” by Rogers and Hart from a musical called Too Many Girls (1939). It is a grown person’ s song, with a breadth of vision that embraces the past and the present-a combination of regret and wonder that makes me ache-in a good way.
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The Lion King | M. Butterfly | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
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Recording Artists
Our favorite Broadway love song is "Somewhere" from West Side Story, which we perform in our concerts and is also on our new album, A Collection of Broadway and American Classics. Those of us who have been lucky enough to fall in love can understand the daily distractions and various challenges that can arise in a relationship. The song is basically about one couple's yearning to get away from all of the difficulties and get back to the simplicity of their love for each other. They long for the idea that somehow, someday, somewhere, their love will triumph over everything.
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The Jonathan Larson Project | Be More Chill
My favorite Broadway love song, and the first one that came to mind, is "Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime. And that actually, you know, everything that I talk about these days has a Jonathan Larson connection. Jonathan was really close friends with Marin Mazzie from the original cast of Ragtime. We've been thinking about Marin in the room. So Ragtime connected to Jonathan Larson. Everybody's connected creatively somehow, right? It's true.
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On the Town
"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years
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Pippin | Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark
If we are talking Broadway or even Off Broadway, one of my favorite songs is Jason Robert Brown's 'All the Wasted Time' but otherwise in general I'm listening to 'My First Love' by Aiden Moore.
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Barococo
“If I Loved You - from Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein. To me, this song is this epitome of romance. As the melody mounts and the crescdenos expand in Rodgers and Hammerstein's "If I Loved You," the newly met lovers entwine their fears and hopes with heartbreaking honesty. By the end of the song, they have fallen in love.”
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Scottsboro Boys
"Love Song" from PIPPIN.
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Little Shop of Horrors
My favorite Broadway love song right now would have to be”All The Wasted Time” from Parade. The song talks about love in such a space of gratitude but also being accountable in the things we as people do in our relationships. It’s SO REAL! Also Ben and Micheala sing the heck out of the song!
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The View Upstairs
My favorite love song is"‘I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You" from a musical called Two By Two, the story of Noah and the Ark, starring Danny Kaye. Lyrics by Martin Charnin, music by Richard Rodgers. The song title alone says it all! I actually think that it should be revived starting Steve Martin.
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Just In Time | All In: Comedy About Love | Here Lies Love | Moulin Rouge! | Beetlejuice | Rocky | American Utopia | Peter and the Starcatcher | Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson | Here Lies Love | The Robber Bridegroom | Oh | Hello
I love the song "From This Moment On" from Out f This World and I love that on course recording of Marin Mazzie and it's just like it's just so witty. You know, it's Cole Porter at his height, it's it's it's beautiful, it's moving it's kind of like it's a really full body listening experience.
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Leopoldstadt | Travesties | The Importance of Being Earnest
My favorite Broadway love song is "I've Never Been In Love Before." Guys And Dolls was the very first musical I was ever in. I was 14 years old, in 9th grade, and I fell head over heels in love with the melody. The harmony on "So please forgive, this helpless haze I'm in…" gave me shivers. When I met my husband at University he was doing an opera degree and I introduced him to this song and we would sing that harmony together in the car. We still do. And it still gives me shivers.”
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Music Director
"A Quiet Thing" by Kander and Ebb.
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Be More Chill | Poster Boy | The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. In a show that has so many fantastic elements, that song is the beating heart of the show.
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Girl From the North Country
My favorite Broadway love song is definitely “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” — nothing like some Gershwin to capture the little things.
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The Cher Show | An American in Paris
Alexa, play “I’m Here” by Cynthia Erivo on Spotify.
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NEXT TO NORMAL | JERSEY BOYS | THE ADDAMS FAMILY | ALL SHOOK UP
"Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" from JERSEY BOYS

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