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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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Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks | Follies | Cabaret | Love Letters | First Impressions | Champagne Complex | John Murray Anderson's Almanac. Commander In Chief. The Sopranos
"Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I. I've always loved it, but I've never sung it.
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Kinky Boots | Newsies | A Catered Affair | La Cage aux Folles | Fiddler on the Roof | Hairspray | Legs Diamond | Torch Song Trilogy
The most romantic love song ever? Simple: "Not a Day Goes By"
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Hadestown | Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
This might sound like I’m slightly biased, but I don’t think I am. My current favorite Broadway love song is “All I’ve Ever Known” from Hadestown.
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New York | New York | Wonderland | In the Heights
"Dammit Janet" from THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW
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The Assembled Parties | Other Desert Cities | Lombardi | A Doll's House
There are so many, but there's one from The Scarlet Pimpernel, that nobody sings, which is "Don't Be Afraid It's Only Love." And I don't know why more people don't sing it. It's just so beautiful.
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Heartbreak House | Frozen | The Herbal Bed | The Real Thing
I've got two actually..."Somewhere" from WEST SIDE STORY and "Till There Was You" from THE MUSIC MAN.
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First Date | The Addams Family | In the Heights | Spring Awakening
You know what I love? "In Whatever Time We Have" from Children of Eden. I just think that is the most beautiful duet ever. It makes me cry everytime I hear it. So I love that one.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert | La Cage Aux Folles | A Chorus Line
'Till There Was You' from The Music Man
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Romeo and Juliet
That's a tricky one. My favorite Broadway love song... "Losing My Mind," I think. All of his music was so beautiful.
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Bullets Over Broadway | Curtains | Contact | Steel Pier
I always get choked up on "If I Loved You" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It's kind of a bittersweet love song, but it's one of my favorites.
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The Wiz | Maggie Flynn
"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME.
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Billy Elliot | Dirty Rotten Scoundrels | Chicago | Victor/Victoria | Damn Yankees | Born Yesterday | Serious Money
"All The Things You Are" by Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II from VERY WARM FOR MAY. When performed in the original stage version with a full chorus there is nothing more sublime. Now if you were to ask me the most "surprisingly charming" love song it would have to be "I Think I Got You Beat" from SHREK by Jeanine Tesori.
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Mamma Mia! | A Little Night Music | Impressionism | A Tale of Two Cities | Les Misérables | The Light in the Piazza | The Last Ship
"Love to Me," Fabrizio to Clara from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
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Chicago
"The Music That Makes Me Dance" from FUNNY GIRL. The song evokes childhood memories, Barbra's voice, gorgeous chords with a great crecendo towards the end.
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The Pirate Queen | Chicago | Urinetown | Side Show | Beauty and the Beast | Smile | Zorba
"Too Many Mornings" from FOLLIES. The thought of a great lost love kills/is killing me even as I write this.
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Guys & Dolls | Spamalot | Don't Quit Your Night Job
"Mea Culpa", cut from SWEENEY TODD. What's more romantic than an old man fantasizing about his adoptive daughter?

I'm sorry, that just made me throw up a little in my mouth.

Honestly though, it would be Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" from RED, HOT AND BLUE. The phrase "how strange the change from major to minor" is so beautiful it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up every time.
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Writer/Director: Camp | Director: 13 | Performer: Baby | Upcoming: Damn Yankees
"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.
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The Producers | Jekyll & Hyde
"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."
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Mrs. Doubtfire | Something Rotten! | Big Fish | The Addams Family | Monty Python's Spamalot | The Producers | Jekyll & Hyde | Aspects of Love
“Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It was the first Broadway show that my husband and I saw together, and that song, so lovely, romantic, ridiculous and hilarious, became very special to us.
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Honeymoon in Vegas | The Producers | A View from the Bridge | 'Who's the Boss,' 'Taxi'
"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS
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La Cage aux Folles | Moon Over Buffalo | Camelot | The Happy Time
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.
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State Fair | Beauty and the Beast | Starlight Express | Les Miserables | Annie
There are so many! I think that Irving Berlin's "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorites.
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Road to Mecca | Barnum | The Threepenny Opera | Candide | Me and My Girl | Scapino | ...Joe Egg
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just the best love song - I'm serious!
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Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.
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The Fantasticks | Seussical
I don't really have a favorite Broadway love song because there are so many great ones! Here are a few of my favorites: “On My Own” from Les Miserables, “Seasons Of Love” from Rent, “Sun And Moon” from Miss Saigon, “As Long As You’re Mine” from Wicked, “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific, “What I Did For Love” from A Chorus Line, “All I Ask Of You” from The Phantom of the Opera, “One Hand One Heart” from West Side Story and of course anything from The Fantasticks.
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Little Women | 3 Penny Opera | Nine | The Pirates of Penzance
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.
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The Visit | Curtains | Candide | The Full Monty
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. It's about a guy who loves his girl so much that he can't think of any way to express what she means to him. He wants to promise her riches, ermine and diamonds, but says that nothing on this earth would be good enough for her. So he'll have to do his shopping up in the dark-blue night sky. He'll buy her a star, but not just any star, THE BEST ONE in the sky. He promises a cloud to sleep on and a silver chain made from the rain of a summer afternoon. All these things he'll get for her but won't be happy until he buys the moon. The ultimate symbol of his overwhelming love. I'm a sucker for romantic imagery like this. Dorothy Fields (lyrics) and Arthur Schwartz (music) have captured, beautifully, a man who loves so much that only ethereal imagery would be able to begin to summize his feelings. The Chorus: I'LL BUY YOU A STAR, NOT JUST A STAR, BUT THE BEST ONE IN THE SKY. YOU'LL HAVE A CLOUD TO SLEEP ON, A CLOUD AS LIGHT AS AN ANGELS SIGH. A FINE SILVER CHAIN MADE FROM THE RAIN OF A SUMMER AFTERNOON. I'LL BUY YOU A STAR MY DARLING, BUT I WON'T REST UNTIL I BUY THE MOON.
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Spring Awakening | The Sisters Rosensweig | I'm Not Rappaport
The most romantic song to me is "Tonight" by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
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Funny Girl | Pippin | Irena's Vow | Golda's Balcony | Lend Me a Tenor | Yentl | Cyrano
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...
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A Touch of the Poet | The Crucible | South Pacific | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Emmy and Academy Award Winner
"Soliloquy" from CAROUSEL. "My boy Bill..."

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