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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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Maestro | To Kill a Mockingbird | Significant Other | Spring Awakening | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
It's "Move On" from Sunday in the Park with George. That song every time gives me goosebumps. It's beautiful and sad like life is.
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | A View From The Bridge
"I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" from My Fair Lady.
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Paradise Square | Slave Play | The Color Purple | Holler If Ya Hear Me | Godspell
"Elaborate Lives" from Aida. Even though they're dying in a tomb! It's such a beautiful song.
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Finding Neverland | Mary Poppins | Fiddler on the Roof
"I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. It's so wonderful to see how a stubborn angry man can learn to be moved, tender and humbled in the face of Love. Even though the word love is not mentioned once, we as the audience all know how much he loves this wild cat he taught to be a Lady! And in my mind he never wants to live without her from that day.
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Mary Poppins | The Secret Garden | The Music Man | The Sound of Music | Nine | Showboat | The Phantom of the Opera
"All The Things You Are" from VERY WARM FOR MAY, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. For me, it's like the heavens are opening up when I hear that song. And it reminds me of how I feel about Danny.
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Oh | Mary! | Hedwig and the Angry Inch | The Secret Garden | Six Degrees of Separation
I think that maybe the greatest standard, is "Lush Life" by Billy Strayhorn- a young, gay, black man who wrote it at 19, talking about the jadedness of the lush life. And that's almost post-love. It's after your heart's been shattered, but you're trying to put it back together.
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Spamalot | Beetlejuice | Sondheim on Sondheim | Legally Blonde | The Great American Trailer Park Musical | Hairspray | Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches
My favorite Broadway Love Song is "One Hand, One Heart" from my favorite Broadway musical, WEST SIDE STORY. I recently sang it at my aunt's wedding - it's a beautiful, simple, love song.
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Falsettos | Anastasia | An American in Paris
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.
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A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
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.
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Sunset Boulevard | Prince of Broadway
"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.
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The Phantom of the Opera
I really like "Tonight" in West Side Story. You know, the enegery when you first meet someone and the excitedness that you feel.
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Finding Neverland | La Cage Aux Folles
"If I Loved You" from Carousel
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Parade | The Cher Show
“Before and After You” from Bridges of Madison County. The melody line breaks and fills my entire heart all at once.
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Galileo | Leap of Faith | Arcadia | Speed-the-Plow | Company | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Taboo
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.
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Floyd Collins | Camelot | To Kill a Mockingbird | Dear Evan Hansen | Bare | Matilda
"Unworthy of Your Love" from Assassins is my jam.
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Heathers | The Best Man | Catch Me If You Can | Rock of Ages | Xanadu | Little Shop of Horrors | Hairspray | Bat Boy | One Life to Live
"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.
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A Little Night Music
"Send in the Clowns" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.
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Chicago | Boeing-Boeing | Beauty and the Beast
"My Cup Runneth Over" from I Do, I Do. I think those lyrics really typify how couples in long relationships feel.
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Hadestown | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Casa Valentina | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark | The Lion King | Beauty and the Beast
"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.
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A Little Night Music | Elaine Stritch At Liberty | A Delicate Balance | Show Boat | Company | Love Letters | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Sail Away | Goldilocks | The Sin of Pat Muldoon | Bus Stop | On Your Toes | Pal Joey | Call Me Maddam | Angel in the Wings | Loco
"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!
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Wicked | Pippin | I'm Not Rappaport | Fosse | Grind | Jesus Christ Superstar
"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.
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The Glass Menagerie | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Doubt | Stepping Out | Macbeth | Angels in America | The Night of the Iguana | Imaginary Friends
"Yours, Yours, Yours" from 1776, because it portrays the romance of great minds who were also madly in love.
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Singer/songwriter: Grammy | Golden Globe and Oscar-winning Legend
"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.
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Shucked | Tootsie | Journey's End | Significant Other
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.
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The Cottage | Legally Blonde | Wicked | Hairspray
"The More You Ruv Someone" from Avenue Q. "the more you love someone the more you want to kill them." Why? Shows unconditional love?
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Scottsboro Boys | A Boy and His Soul | Euphoria
"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.
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On the Twentieth Century | You Can't Take it With You
“Till There Was You” from The Music Man
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Bright Star | Gigi | Bye Bye Birdie | Mamma Mia! | Footloose
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!
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Gigi | Sunday in the Park With George | She Loves Me | The Secret Garden | The Phantom of the Opera | Anything Goes
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.
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Wonderful Town | Cabaret | Chicago | Grease | Leap of Faith
"I Believe My Heart" from The Woman in White.

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