"Make Our Garden Grow" from CANDIDE. It's not a romantic love song, it's not a starry-eyed love song. It's about the kind of love you earn. The kind you can trust. It's adult and hard-won, and yet ecstatic. With the most passionate, beautiful choral arrangement in the entire theatrical canon.

"My favorite Broadway love song is “Someone Like You” from the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde. I have performed the song on stage, and now in concerts around the world and it really resonates with me because it’s kind of the story of my life...the story of me and my wife, Hayley… "someone like you found someone like me."

Certainly one of the most romantic Broadways songs is "Lazy Afternoon" from THE GOLDEN APPLE. The music by Jerome Moross and the lyrics by John Latouche are so seductive. The 1975 Barbara Streisand recording is extraordinary.

"Too Many Mornings" from Follies. I love the complexity of emotions in this song. Regrets for the past, present needs, fantasy for the future. And oh, that gorgeous lush melody.

In light of the fact that there is going to be a musical based on the music of John Lennon, I would have to say that my favorite love song is "Here There and Everywhere" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It has a vulnerability in its lyrics while at the same time, there is an extremely challenging vocal line happening. The lyric "running my hands through her hair" shows a softness of heart and intimacy that only Lennon and McCartney could expose, all the while singing a most dexterous musical passage. "But to love her is to meet her everywhere". This song inspires me to love more and more deeply each time I hear it. It also challenges me as a musician and teacher.

"People" from FUNNY GIRL, because when Barbra Streisand sang it, she was radiating love for Nicky Arnstein, humanity, musicals, and (most deservedly of all) herself!

"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS

For the most romantic Broadway song, my wife insists that I say "If Ever I Would Leave You", but if that is playing it too close to the vest, how about -- "If I Loved You" -- Both songs have great lyrics and great melodies.

There are so many! I think that Irving Berlin's "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorites.

"One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. Everytime I hear it it gets me. The orchestration is a masterpiece. The melody is beautiful and unpredictable. Also, it was the song my parents first danced to at their wedding. So good!!!

"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just the best love song - I'm serious!

"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.

I'd have to say "OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY" is my favorite romantic song. It was Cathy and my wedding song and represents a beautiful marriage between music and lyrics. Also, knowing it was the last song George Gershwin wrote before he died gives the song an added poignancy. Ira was writing of his love for his brother and the hope that George's legacy would survive the test of time. Thanks to their brilliance, it's a timeless song.

My songs would be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "On the Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY.

I think Irving Berlin's song "What'll I Do" from THE MUSIC BOX REVUE is terribly romantic and melancholy. And I love it when Bernadette (Peters) sings it!

I find Gershwin's music to be incredibly romantic. To me, his most passionate theater song is the 1935 PORGY AND BESS duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," with lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. I have loved this score since I was a child -- it was ahead of its time in the '30s when it was written and in many ways it still is today.

That is a tough one. There are so many. I don't know if some of these were written for Broadway but, "Always", "I'll Be Seeing You", "So In Love" etc... are on the list and I'm sure there will be many who would include the same one I would if I were to do something typical. So, I don't know that this is the most romantic song ever written... but it's a newly discovered favorite of mine. Trying to avoid self promotion but... the song "I'll Buy You A Star" from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is quite extraordinary.

George & Ira Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me," especially since it's about to be sung by the sublime Kelli O'Hara in "Nice Work If You Can Get It."

The most romantic song to me is "Tonight" by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.

The most romantic Broadway love song, for me, is "I'll Be Seeing You" (Sammy Fain-Irving Kahal) from the 1938 short-lived musical RIGHT THIS WAY. Though it was written right before the war, it resonated profoundly for all the Allies during WWII as boys were sent across the Atlantic to fight for the liberation of most of Western Europe from under the yoke of Nazi Germany. Maybe I am mindful of this because we are now a country at war and families are being torn apart. Indeed, I hope I will be seeing all of our soldiers in Iraq home safe and soon. Love to you from GOLDA'S BALCONY at the Wadsworth Theatre (on the grounds of the Veteran's Administration) in Los Angeles...

Depending on how you see 'love song', I would say there is a tie: "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY because the music is a blueprint of unconditional love. Almost like a map that you hear; every lyric and note lead you there. And even thought it's not Broadway (yet), "Midnight Radio" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch because nothing is more romantic than the misfits and the losers finding their other halves. And the guitar in that song always gets me in the mood...

"Soliloquy" from CAROUSEL. "My boy Bill..."

I was thinking, wistfully, about London the other day. I don't know why, and my iPod shuffle, which is uncannily in tune with my psyche, served up the perfect compliment to my mood: Vera Lynn singing "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square". The song premiered on the London stage in 1940's NEW FACES. It is an unabashedly romantic tale of two people falling in love in Mayfair. There may be more romantic songs out there, but the age of the recording, coupled with the simple imagery and the sound of Vera Lynn's pure soaring voice singing "I know 'cos I was there" - well it gets me every time.

I think Ravel's Bolero is very sexy music, boring, but sexy.

"I've Never Been In Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS - a big bold shouting love to the world. "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve" - The song speaks to everyone's secret fear, being alone without a loved one on New Year's Eve...

I have to say that my choice for most romantic song comes from the musical version of Faust. The song, "Feels Like Home", was how I first told my boyfriend I loved him. This may sound really sappy and dorky, but we were on the roof of my apartment building one night, and I just started singing it to him...because I was too chicken to just outright tell him how I felt! "A window breaks down a long dark street, and a siren wails in the night. But I'm alright 'cause I have you here with me, and I can almost see through the dark, there's light. If you knew how much this moment means to me, and how long, I've waited for your touch. If you knew how happy you are making me, I never thought I'd love anyone so much."

I feel like I have a favorite love song from every Broadway show, but if I had to pick just one, I guess it would be "Last Night of the World" from MISS SAIGON. One of my favorite memories is of my high school voice teacher playing it for me and telling me how it was the PERFECT love song. He loved it so much, he filled a cassette tape with the song recorded over and over to fill the whole tape. I remember thinking it was kinda silly at the time, but that song really is so beautiful and the saxophone solo in the middle gets me every time!

"I Only Have Eyes For You". One of the best songs ever!!!

The first one that comes to my mind is "Love Song" from Pippin. I don't know how it holds up these days, but when I was in high school, that was my JAM.

"If I Loved You", from CAROUSEL, is written as a duet, and the drama of these two people denying what they are feeling is what makes it a great song. As a solo number it's just the loneliest thing you can imagine, and just as great. Runners-up: "Her Face", from CARNIVAL, "Never Will I Marry", from GREENWILLOW.