My favorite Broadway love song is "Nice Work If You Can Get It," and it's because of those lyrics. It is my favorite love song because "nice work if you can get it."

“I've Got You Under My Skin”

It's always been "If I Loved You" from Carousel. I learned it in college and it's always stuck with me. The minute I sing it, it just sweeps me away.

My favorite Broadway love song is "I Don't Need Anything But You" from Annie, between Annie and Daddy Warbucks. It's the sweetest song and it's not a traditional love song, it's not romantic love. It's about a father figure, a new dad, and a little girl, and it's just so touching.

"Too Much In Love To Care" from Sunset Boulevard. It depicts the crisis of falling in love with the right person at the wrong time and how they defy all odds to pursue this love regardless. Truly passionate and romantic yet troubled, flawed and utterly human.

I really like "Tonight" in West Side Story. You know, the enegery when you first meet someone and the excitedness that you feel.

"If I Loved You" from Carousel

“Before and After You” from Bridges of Madison County. The melody line breaks and fills my entire heart all at once.

Today, for some reason, I keep thinking of WITHOUT YOU from Rent. Not the happiest of choices, yeah, but there's a version that Mary Chapin Carpenter did at Jon Larson's memorial, just her voice and her guitar, that makes me weep for its beauty. It's a rainy day, longing for someone, achy song that hurts so sweetly. And I've always had a soft spot for NEW WORDS by Maury Yeston. It's a parent singing to their child. Very simple and very difficult to define love. And the love in one's family, one's home, wherever you create it, is the deepest love of all. Ask me again tomorrow. I'll have a different answer.

"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins is my jam.

"What More Can I Say" from FALSETTOLAND. There are so many that I love, off the top of my head I picked that one because it's not conventional...or corny.

"Send in the Clowns" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

"My Cup Runneth Over" from I Do, I Do. I think those lyrics really typify how couples in long relationships feel.

"If I Loved You." I love how they dance around the idea that it's a love song, but they're both denying that they're in love.

"Send in the Clowns"

"Make Someone Happy" from the Broadway production "DO RE MI" - words by Comden and Green. Music by Jule Styne. The song beautifully explains the only way to find true happiness..."make some happy - make just one someone happy...and you will be happy, too." I'm not saying it has to be a love affair...just as long as it's how you feel. Hey...it could even be a long-haired dachshund!

"My Funny Valentine". What else? It's a beautiful song, beautiful lyrics, and it's about the simple truth of love. Valentine's Day, to me, is every day. And it's not just about the love of a Valentine, it's about the love of spirit. If we can, as a people, all over the world, come to love one another, then the world will be a better place.

"Yours, Yours, Yours" from 1776, because it portrays the romance of great minds who were also madly in love.

"Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is the choice of the hour, because if you got me closer to the morning or the evening, it might be something else. But I keep referring to this one in my mind because it is the ultimate song of compassion. Anna sings it about the King of Siam, with all his self-obsessed and insecure ways. Even so, he is shocked out of self-absorbsion and his so oft rehearsed kingly 'performance' into a deeply, humanly compassionate and likely unselfconscious moment. The melody of the song is plenty, but it is the words that make me love everybody, for their humanity in its tiniest details.

"When She Smiles" from Lysistrata Jones; because when I heard Lewis Flinn sing it for the first time, I fell in love with him all over again.

1. "Some Other Time" from ON THE TOWN - is the most poignant and never fails to move me to tears (and I've heard and sung it a lot!) The music is so beautiful - aching and sweet and the lyrics are so specific, eloquent and profound : e.g. "this day was just a token too many words are still unspoken oh well.. we'll catch up some other time haven't had time to wake up seeing you there without your make-up oh well... we'll catch up some other time...." etc etc etc. ! ! 2. Any love song sung by Barbara Cook! most especially, the exquisite "In Buddy's Eyes" and "Mister Snow" 3. "Joanna" from SWEENEY TODD Happy Valentine's Day!

My favorite Broadway love song this year for Valentine's Day is anything that Lora Lee Gayer sang in Holiday Inn because, see ya on Valentine's Day, honey. Any of those songs, "White Christmas," sure.

"The More You Ruv Someone" from Avenue Q. "the more you love someone the more you want to kill them." Why? Shows unconditional love?

"Forever Yours" from ONCE ON THIS ISLAND is pretty special. When I first heard that song it took me straight into the stratosphere. The lyrics, the harmonies, the orchestration. Then the crushing reality of Papa Ge piping in at the end and reeling these lovers back to earth from their spiritual coming togetherness. Ah but it was a moment...a precious moment.

“Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful” from Cinderella – though I prefer the second verse, “Do I love you because you’re wonderful, or are you wonderful because I love you." I feel all soft and mushy and then I go ‘Ahhh’ and then I cry.

“Till There Was You” from The Music Man

My FAVORITE is from The Golden Apple, by Jerome Moross and John LaTouche—"It's the Going Home Together." I have loved this duet since the day I heard it, and if I ever got married again, would have it sung at my wedding!

I think Stephen Schwartz's beautiful ballad "With You" from PIPPIN is just about perfect. It's a gorgeous melody, a poetic lyric stated with simplicity and grace. Simply perfection.

"I Believe My Heart" from The Woman in White.

I think it’s called “Make Believe” from Show Boat. Its just pretty.