This is an easy one! It's my favorite song of all time It's BILL from SHOWBOAT...gets me every time. So simple and honest. The melody tugs at your heart and the lyric " I love him because he's ...I don't know. Because he's just my Bill." We don't know why we love who we love ...we just do (take that GEORGE BUSH)

"Maria" from WEST SIDE STORY

My first instinct was something a bunch of other people have probably chosen, CAMELOT's "If Ever I Would Leave You;" it just doesn't get any better. But as a contemporary theatre songwriter, I feel like, in the end, I wanna go with some more recent stuff, and my three favorite love duets from the last decade or so are Yazbek's "Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True" (DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS) for its old-school melody and goofy originality, LaChiusa's "People Like Us" (THE WILD PARTY), with its sexy and soulful take on how two lonely, damaged people can connect, and, especially, Hamlisch and Carnelia's "Don't Know Where You Leave Off" (THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS), which has a great lyric hook, endless longing, and in its own jazzy way, soars musically as much as anything since the days of Lerner & Loewe. All incredible, beautiful numbers, which prove they can write 'em like they used to. Here's hoping the most romantic Broadway love songs haven't even been written yet.

"I'll Be Loving You Always" by Irving Berlin, is my favorite romantic song. I actually sang it to my late husband, Ranald MacDougall, when I proposed to him.

I think the most romantic Broadway Love Song ever written is "Unworthy of Your Love" by Sondheim (ASSASSINS). This is a great song. I'm not sure how romantic it could be considered, but it proves that everyone has someone who loves them...

"Timeless to Me". Oh wait. I can't say that. OK - "Married" from CABARET. Why? Because it's so romantic!

"I Wish I Could Forget You" from PASSION.

I'd have to say my favorite romantic Broadway song, off the top of my head, is 'Some Girls' from Once on This Island. It's a song of love and adoration that comes from the heart while the character is in the circumstance of the confines of tradition and class. 'Daniel' realizes/discovers his love for 'Ti Moune' in how different she is from other women and for being the unique and the simple person she is, meanwhile he is destined to marry someone of his own class that has been arranged since birth. I find it so romantic that in he can sing this love song to her at the same time acknowledging he will not be able to be with her.

"If I Loved You" -- hands down. Because it's like the dance you do before you admit how much you love someone.

My favorite romantic song was written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh and it's called it "It Amazes Me." It's just a perspective of how you come into this world one way, and how somebody can love you so much that you change the perspective of yourself.

We just can't choose one. Our favorites are: "It Only Takes a Moment" from Hello Dolly!, "What More Can I Say" from Falsettos, and "I Have Dreamed" from The King and I.

Yikes, the most romantic Broadway love song ever written? Let me think - I never thought about that. It might be "All The Things You Are," Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein. "You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long."

My favorite is "Always" by Irving Berlin. It was sung at our wedding by the wonderful Kelli O'Hara, so it will always be my favorite.

For someone who sings gorgeous love songs every day of my life, that's a Sophie's Choice kind of question. But at this moment I would answer with "How Deep Is the Ocean" by Irving Berlin, written in 1933 for the Broadway show AS THOUSANDS CHEER. The words and the music are so perfect for each other that they themselves are like two great lovers in the sublime way that they connect. The lyric expresses exactly how I feel when I am with someone I love with all my heart. What makes the song pure genius is that Berlin expresses the deepest love through only questions. Romance is heightened by anticipation, and here, each question makes the listener find each answer. As a side note, I'd like to ask all singers reading this to please resist the temptation to do this song as a crazy upbeat number. It takes all the heart and soul out of it and I want to call the "lyric police" whenever I hear this. When I recorded this classic on my first CD with Mike Renzi at the piano, I had a fantasy that the beauty of the song would touch people so much that it would miraculously become a hit single played on every radio station. It might have happened if we lived in a world where each day was Valentine's Day.

"A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow," from the movie A Mighty Wind. I know, it's not from a Broadway show per se, but the song was written by a Broadway star, the brilliant Michael McKean (and his wife, the actress Anette O'Toole). It's amazingly performed in the movie by Catherine O'Hara and Eugene Levy as an estranged, divorced folksinging duo from the 60's. The song says one radical thing, simply and beautifully: that love is worth more than money. And it's punctuated with this kiss that's so sad and beautiful at once. It's such a wonderful movie - for those who went expecting a fall-on-the-floor comedy and were disappointed: watch it again.

I'd say "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL, because they don't admit they're in love, they pretend it's only a possibility, and that restraint breaks your heart.

I think the most romantic Broadway love song is......."How Could I Ever Know" because of the lyrics. The notion that a person who is no longer in this world could contact their true love to tell them they are the one they were born to love, is extremely moving to me.

If I Loved You -- because it's written in future tense, full of denial, and sung by two stubborn people who, in the course of the song, actually fall in love .... resistance gone. =) R&H .... masters.

I am more often moved by the - playing against it - category of love song: "People Will Say We're in Love", "If I Loved You", etc...however, without a doubt, the most riveting and romantic love song ever written (for me) is: "Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY simply because the song itself is pure and perfect like we always dream love to be but it doesn't pretend it's possible now...

I always get a little teary-eyed when I hear the ending of "Yours, Yours, Yours" from 1776. It's that duet harmony, coupled with those simple, simple words that mean so much more when sung by John and Abigail: Till then, till then... I am... As I ever was and ever shall be... Yours...yours...yours...yours...yours. And even though it's more heartbreaking than romantic, I truly love "You and I" from CHESS. So bittersweet. Have a swell Valentine's Day---

"Sit On My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me"

There are too many to count as my favorites; however, I'd say that Scene One from SOUTH PACIFIC (which includes "Dites-Moi," "Cock-eyed Optimist. " "Twin Soliloquies," and "Some Enchanted Evening") rates right at the top of my list.

My favorite Broadway love song is "I Wish I Were In Love Again" from Babes In Arms. The hilarious lyrics, including "The pulled-out fur/Of cat and cur,/The fine mismating of a him and her... I don't like quiet and I wish I were/In love again", can distract from the real solidity and weight of the music and the song as a whole, especially when it's performed super fast like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney did in the 1948 Rodgers and Hart biopic Words And Music. So I recommend the slower Frank Sinatra version, which sounds wry and battle-scarred and optimistic even in the face of disaster, like love should be.

My favorite broadway love song, "How Could I Ever Know," from THE SECRET GARDEN. (I was fortunate enough to sing this in the National Tour every night when I played the role of Lily.) Why? The idea of being able to reach someone from beyond the grave and comfort them in a time of crisis, mixed in with the notion that great love never dies and has a tangible presence...mmm.

If I think about this too long - it's nearly impossible to answer simply. Too many lists, qualifications and memories. But - the immediate response: "In a Very Unusual Way" from NINE. I saw the original cast of NINE when I was in my (very) early 20's - but had no recording, only a memory. When I saw the revival of NINE - which to my mind - is the romantic musical for adults who've been through any kind of romance - I just cried through Laura Benanti's performance. The song and her performance so revived and enhanced my memory of the first, so matched how I feel about romance now, as an adult, that it still musically haunts and fills my heart. I'm listening to it now, as I type.

I can't speak to "the best ever," but I think the song "The Next Ten Minutes" from Jason Robert Brown's THE LAST FIVE YEARS is one of the most beautiful love songs written for musical theatre. There are sentimental reasons of course....

This one has a personal history for me. I actually sang it to my the first serious girlfriend I ever had. The most romantic love song that jumped into my head when I read this question is "Fallin'," by Marvin Hamlisch, from the musical THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG. Why? The song is a confession of love from someone who has a real fear of intimacy and vulnerability, but is finally ready to take a chance with someone and risk being hurt. To me, that is the essence of falling in love and allowing yourself to be in love with someone -- that feeling of someone bringing you such utter joy that you are willing to confront whatever fears you have about life and love to be with him or her.

Growing up with LES MIS, I have to say the most romantic Broadway love song ever is "On My Own." I know this is probably not an original response, but I love it! So tragic!!

I am probably partial to ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, but I have to say that "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorite love songs. Creating the arrangement for Bernadette a few years ago lives as one of my sweetest Broadway memories. Irving Berlin had a simplicity that just cuts right to the heart of the matter.

How to Handle a Woman" from CAMELOT is my all time favorite. It's exactly how my sweetie treats me.