"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.

I am currently obsessed with "Say it Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. A perfect use of the old musical theater rule... "when words can no longer express..." Clara and Fabrizio's love scene is romantic and emotional despite the language barrier between them. The way the voices find each other in the music without lyrics is sexy, haunting and just beautiful.

"Something Wonderful." That lyric is about love, but it's an adult love. It's more complicated. It's not always smooth, and he doesn't always say what you want. It's hard, and he doesn't behave, but I know him and I know his soul and I know he's wonderful. That's my choice right now. When I was younger, it was all idealism and romance, but I'm a realist now!

My favorite Broadway love song is “Bonnie” from Bonnie and Clyde The Musical. Bonnie and Clyde has a sound track that is just brilliant but that song particularly has always stuck with me. It’s a song that is short and very simple, but it’s so grounded and caring. It reminds me of a song that you’re average person would sit down and write for their own love and sing to them to express how much they adore the other one. It’s just incredibly honest.

My favorite Broadway love song is "Dulcinea" from Man of La Mancha. Music by Mitch Leigh, lyrics, by Joe Darion. One of the most beautiful pairings of music and lyrics that I have ever heard in a Broadway musical.

'One Hand, One Heart' from West Side Story

There are too many to name. I've had the good fortune of singing some great ones like "Next Ten Minutes" from Last Five Years or "Perfect For You" from Next to Normal, and of course, "Miracle of Miracles" from Fiddler on the Roof. Happy V-Day X

"My Heart Is So Full Of You" by Frank Loesser from the musical THE MOST HAPPY FELLA.

I love "Can’t Take My Eyes Off You" by The Four Seasons, which is of course in Jersey Boys. Look, I'm not saying someone has to hire an entire horn section to tell me that they love me, but it would help.

"This Nearly Was Mine," South Pacific. That optimistic flush of post-war America, a world of feisty-but-adorable sopranos and dashing Italian baritones, in the midst of impossibly lush tropical locations… Aah.

I think "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL is the most perfectly written love song. The matching of the lyric to the melody is sublime.

"Stranger in Paradise" from KISMET. It's just glorious.

"The Word of Your Body" from SPRING AWAKENING, and not just because I know the people who sing it.

"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from SIDE SHOW. One of the most exquisite songs of all time, from the theater or not. The music is beautiful and the lyrics touch me deeply. Everyone - at one point or another - has felt like an outsider, and this song expresses that beautifully. Thankfully, Broadway is a wonderful place where all the fabulous freaks can come together and have a sense of community. I love it and this song!

The MOST is always tricky, but the song that made me first understand grown up romance was "My White Knight" from The Music Man. It is often in my thoughts when I head home at night to my partner of 28 years.

Many thoughts and titles come to mind but Kern's last show wind. I say "All The Things You Are," from VERY WARM FOR MAY.