Most Romantic Broadway Love Song

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.

Scott Wittman

Composer/Lyricist

On the Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady. A valentine to stalkers everywhere. You can just imagine the ski cap and the high powered rifle while you listen to it.

Hunter Bell

Composer/Lyricist

Other World | Now. Here. This. | [title of show]

My favorite love song is from one of my favorite musicals- She Loves Me. It's "Will He Like Me?". I think it's a beautiful, love song about the possibility of love and how you show up for that first meet.

Jeff Bowen

Composer/Lyricist

Other World | Now. Here. This. | [title of show]

"The Light in the Piazza" from The Light in the Piazza. The concept of having a complete metaphor for what love is and moving through life and arriving at all of the adventures and love that you experience, wrapped up in something so big and simultaneously teeny tiny and specific... I can barely talk about it without bursting into tears.

Rupert Holmes

Composer/Lyricist

Curtains | The Mystery of Edwin Drood

I tend to favor "loss songs" such as "What Did I Have That I Don't Have?" and "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (both Lerner matched at every turn by Lane and Loewe, respectively) over "love songs" . . . however where Love at First Listen is concerned: "The Song is You" (by Kern & Hammerstein, as brilliantly constructed a theme as has ever been composed); "Maria" (Bernstein & Sondheim, and surely no one has ever sung it better than its originator Larry Kert); and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" by Rodgers and Hart. Or anything else that duo ever wrote together.

Carson Kreitzer

Composer/Lyricist

Lempicka

“Losing My Mind" from Follies. The ache and the longing are almost too much to bear. So real, so recognizable. Sondheim is the master at so many things, but longing...? No one does it better. Here, his usual linguistic pyrotechnics are kept to a spare simplicity that just...breaks you. The rhyme is "up" and "cup". I want you So, it's like I'm Losing my Mind. The Barbara Cook version from the Follies Concert film has etched a groove in my soul. Honorable Mention: "Not While I'm Around" from Sweeney Todd. Come on- that’s just pure.

Ann McNamee

Composer/Lyricist

Other World

The entire musical Come From Away is a love song! It's a love song to the rest of the world.

Jonathan Tunick

Composer/Lyricist

My pick is "Why Did I Choose You?" from the 1965 flop The Yearling by Herbert Martin and Mickey Leonard. One of the many things I love about this song is that it is one of the very few songs that ends in a different key than the one in which it begins. Changing key imperceptibly, it takes the listener to a new and different place than where he or she had started.

David Yazbek

Composer/Lyricist

The Band's Visit | Tootsie | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | The Full Monty

"Haled's Song About Love" from The Band's Visit. Yeah, I wrote it! That's why I love it so much!

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