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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. 

This year's list is presented by The Notebook, now in previews on Broadway. Based on the best selling novel that inspired the iconic film, this new musical follows Allie and Noah, both from different worlds, as they share a lifetime of love despite the forces that threaten to pull them apart, in a deeply moving portrait of the enduring power of love.

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School of Rock | Kinky Boots
My favorite Braodway love song is "Love to Me" by Adam Guettel.
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The Confession of Lily Dare
"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. Because that song is a real “every person” song that speaks to the romance of the common man but elevated it musically to something divine.
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Long Day's Journey Into Night | The Play That Goes Wrong
I am admittedly not very well-versed in Broadway musicals, but I know my Motown! I love "My Girl" from Ain't Too Proud. You can't go wrong with the Temptations.
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She Loves Me | On the Twentieth Century | Chaplin
"They Were You" from The Fantasticks
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Frozen | Wicked | Kinky Boots | Evita
My choice for this would be “Sleepy Man” from The Robber Bridegroom. It’s kind of an inside joke with my husband because he usually falls asleep when we start movies and he’s always the first one to fall asleep, but I think it’s sweet. I feel like this song is true love because you are loving them when it’s quiet and no one else is around. Your love for this person is a deep and personal love that doesn’t always have to be shared with the rest of the world. Today, our world is so much about sharing everything and I feel like this song is a quiet, important, intimate version of love that we can sometimes lose sight of. Sometimes I turn and look at him peacefully sleeping and I’m reminded how lucky I am to be married to him and what a gift it is to have my partner right next to me.
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Jersey Boys
I think mine is "All the Wasted Time" from Parade. It's a gorgeous song and I also love how it's not about new love, but about an old love that's been there all along. It makes me cry.
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She Loves Me | On the Twentieth Century | Bullets Over Broadway
“They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
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Merrily We Roll Along | Bernhardt/Hamlet
"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime because it's Audra and that's all you need to know.
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The Lion King | Scottsboro Boys
I was torn between "One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY and "I'll Cover You" from RENT. They both capture the true essence of being in love with someone, that feeling when nothing else matters and together you can take on anything. Total connection between two people. So I guess my real answer is "The Origin of Love" from HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.
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Muder for Two
My old school fave is "I Wanna Be With You" from Golden Boy and new school fave is "Say It Somehow" from The Light in the Piazza. True poetry in the lyrics and thrilling melodies that perfectly encapsulate what it means to be in love.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
One of my favorite Broadway love songs would have to be "For Good" from Wicked. As love songs go it doesn't depict the usual love between a man and a woman, but the love between two friends and what they have gone through in life. It shows the meaning of true friendship and of the reality that friendships aren't always easy or smooth, but true friends always come out in the end stronger. On another angle it portrays that even the bad things in life make you who you are whether you like it or not. Plus from the outside people will judge and see black/white, good/evil, or in this case green and white. But no one really knows the depth of any relationship until you look beneath the surface and see it unselfishly. Like true friends they forgive and know that even if they never see each other again, being forgotten is not even a possibility.
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The Heart of Rock and Roll | Come From Away
"Falling Slowly" from Once. I just remember ugly face crying top to bottom during that show. It might have been where I was relationship-wise at the time, or the performances, or the magic of a foreign love story; but I recall being moved to run home and watch the film that very night to cry all over again. I was humming Falling Slowly for WEEKS.
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Dear Evan Hansen | Mamma Mia! | Wicked | Aida | The Times They Are A Changin'
'Say It Somehow' from The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel
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The Miracle Worker | Little Miss Sunshine
"I'm Not That Girl" from WICKED. I just saw WICKED. I loved that song!
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Spamalot | The Shark Is Broken | Beetlejuice | School of Rock | Matilda | Wicked
My favorite Broadway love song is "If I Loved You" from Carousel. It is, in my opinion, the most layered song in musical theatre history. But it is most definitely, the most layered LOVE song in musical theatre history. Over the course of "the bench scene," we witness the potential of a whole life lived. But the whole notion of Billy and Julie's love is posited as conditional. It's a bit controversial, knowing what we know about Billy, but you cannot deny the moment of the song. It's tender, it's raw, it's real, it's idealistic, and it's somewhat sad. That song/moment gives me chills every single time I listen to it. It's also my wife's favorite...and I love her...so...bonus.
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Mary Poppins | On the Record | Beauty and the Beast
"So In Love" from Kiss Me Kate. I love the melody and the sentiment. She's in love no matter what! I just love it.
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American Psycho | The Legend of Gerogia McBride | Heathers
"First Date / Last Night" from Pasek & Paul's Dogfight The Musical. This song, sung with such ease and humor by Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena always hits me right in the heartstrings, and so expertly captures the over-thinking and second-guessing-yourself-ness that we've all felt on a first date.
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Pal Joey | Whisper House | Beautiful | Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark | Grease | High Fidelity | Aida
First thing that comes to mind is "My Friends" from Sweeney Todd. Sure it's a little dark in context, but it's such a heartbreakingly beautiful melody framing the loving reunion of a man with his life and livelihood.
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The Ferryman | Black and Blue
“Til There Was You' from The Music Man. Like many people I came across this song on the first Beatles album with Paul McCartney singing the lead vocal. Later I listened as my friend Glen Richardson sang it to his wife on their wedding day. A very romantic song!”
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Something Rotten | Elf | Thoroughly Modern Millie
My favorite Broadway love song is "I Turned the Corner" from Thoroughly Modern Millie, sung by the incomparable Gavin Creel. Gavin remains one of my dearest friends in the world & I have such wonderful memories of being in the original company of Millie together...one of which was being on as Millie and singing this glorious Act 2 love song whilst dancing on a ledge.
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Rocktopia
My favorite love song from Broadway was from Rock of Ages: "High Enough" by Night Ranger. Just something about the song made me feel like, "okay it's a love song without all the normal dialogue." I was more like a conversation instead of a "I love you because of this." And it was also a great band.
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Little Shop of Horrors
My favorite Broadway love song is "Forever Yours" from Once on This Island. It is stunning and has an unexpected ending like love often can
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Tuck Everlasting
My favorite Broadway love song is "Forever Yours," from Once On This Island. It's such a wonderful expression of the power and timelessness of true love. Not to mention the fact that the story of star crossed lovers never gets old!
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King Kong
I would have to say that my favorite Broadway love song would have to be When Words Fail from Shrek. It’s not your typical love song, but it is beautiful nonetheless. It gives you a the sense of some cute school yard crush. He is trying so hard not to be awkward and really express himself but can’t find the words. But he knows that no matter what he says (or doesn’t say) she will understand his true intentions. If that isn’t love, I don’t know what is.
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Tina | King Kong | Something Rotten! | Kinky Boots
My favorite is "The Human Heart" from Once on This Island. I'm pretty sure that whenever I get married, someone will fabulously sing that song to me. I love that song!
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My Fair Lady | Catch Me If You Can | Big Fish | Wicked | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | The Last Five Years
In Big Fish, Kate Baldwin had a song called "I Don't Need a Roof." It makes me emotional just thinking about it. For anyone who hasn't listened to that soundtrack recently, listen to Kate sing the lyric to that Andrew Lippa song, and I'll tell you- if that doesn't make you feel something, you don't have a heart!
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Shucked | The Wedding Singer | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | The Rocky Horror Show | The Lion King
Without a doubt, "The Origin of Love" from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Stephen Trask’s searing masterpiece lets us know how it all began and places our collective truths right at our feet. ‘I could swear by your expression, that the pain down in your soul, was the same as the one down in mine…’. That sums it all up. Plato couldn’t have said it better.
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Forbidden Broadway | Burn the Floor | The Rocky Horror Show
My favorite love songs are "My Time Of Day" and "All The Things You Are.”
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Memphis
"Once Upon a Time" because it's a really sweet song - even though it ends sad.
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Rocktopia
My favorite love song is Gerswhin's "The Man I Love." I learned it when I was about 20 years old, and I was asked to sing it for the late, great Beverly Sills at a dinner party, and I was very nervous. I was told it was her favorite song, and now it's become one my very favorite songs as well.

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