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They say that falling in love is wonderful... and doesn't Broadway know it! 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.

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Nobody Cares | My Fair Lady | Meteor Shower | She Loves Me | Gypsy | The Wedding Singer | The Secret Garden
Well, it's funny because my dad, Sal, his birthday is on Valentine's Day, so we call it "Sal-entine's Day," and his favorite song is "The Impossible Dream."
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Wicked movie | The Color Purple
“Fools Fall in Love” from Smokey Joes Cafe.
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Once on This Island | Porgy and Bess | The Little Mermaid | The Phantom of the Opera | Les Misérables
Even though it was a tragic song that I did in Side Show, people keep asking me a lot of times to sing that at weddings, "You Should Be Loved." Also, "The Music of the Night." It's actually a beautiful song. It's a little more sexy than love long. "I Believe My Own Eyes," from Tommy, I mean, come on. There's a lot great stuff that I've been able to sing. Even Miss Saigon, that tragic love story, with "Sun and Moon." It's hard to pick.
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The Piano Lesson | The Color Purple
“I Got Love” from Purlie.
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The Cher Show | Finding Neverland | Wicked
My favorite Broadway love song would have to be the entire bench scene in Carousel. "If I Loved You" is such a classic romantic tune, but encased within the full orchestrated "bench scene" it is a beautiful depiction of the moment two lost souls fall in love.
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Finding Neverland | Mary Poppins | Fiddler on the Roof
"I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. It's so wonderful to see how a stubborn angry man can learn to be moved, tender and humbled in the face of Love. Even though the word love is not mentioned once, we as the audience all know how much he loves this wild cat he taught to be a Lady! And in my mind he never wants to live without her from that day.
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The Phantom of the Opera
I really like "Tonight" in West Side Story. You know, the enegery when you first meet someone and the excitedness that you feel.
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The Band's Visit | Fiddler on the Roof | Avenue Q | Rent | The Last Five Years
There are too many to name. I've had the good fortune of singing some great ones like "Next Ten Minutes" from Last Five Years or "Perfect For You" from Next to Normal, and of course, "Miracle of Miracles" from Fiddler on the Roof. Happy V-Day X
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American Psycho | Lazarus | American Idiot
“The Light in the Piazza” from The Light in the Piazza. The music and orchestrations are insanely romantic and beautiful, and Clara explaining that love is everywhere and rushing through her and all around her is exactly how being in love feels to me!!
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The Phantom of the Opera | A Tale of Two Cities | Assassins
I think "If Ever I Would Leave You" is to me the quintessential love song. Especially, you can take it out of context- but within that context, I just think it covers all the bases.
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She Loves Me | Something Rotten! | Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella | A Free Man of Color
I imagine we all have many favorites, but the first Broadway show I saw was the 1957 Bells Are Ringing and although one could certainly choose “The Party's Over” or “Just In Time” from that wonderful score, it's the beautiful “Long Before I Knew You” that has stayed with me.
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Cirque du Soleil Paramour
"Maria" from West Side Story.
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She Loves Me | On the Twentieth Century | Chaplin
"They Were You" from The Fantasticks
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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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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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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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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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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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Tuck Everlasting | Can-Can
"Last Night Of The World" from Miss Saigon.
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Hand to God
It's old school, but "Something Good," from The Sound of Music slays me. Seeing Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer together as a pre teen woke something up in me. Just like Maria, I couldn't resist the captain. It sounds so pure and chaste, but there's an underlying sensuality in that song that still makes me weak in the knees. But then again, nothing captures that free falling feeling of love like, "Changing My Major," in Fun Home. Oh, Joan. May we all have a Joan at least once......
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She Loves Me | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Bonnie & Clyde | Baby It's You!
"It Takes Two" from Into the Woods
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Cabin in the Sky | Amazing Grace
My favorite Broadway love song, right this moment, is "Taking a Chance on Love" because LaChanze sings it, and Lord have mercy.
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The Color Purple
I promise it's absolutely not because I am currently in this show but I completely adore the song "What About Love"! The words are everything true love should be. "What about tears when I'm happy? What about wings when I fall? I want you to be a story me that I can believe in forever!" It's kind of perfect
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Trip of Love
My favorite Broadway love song is “Without You” from Rent. The entirety of the song she speaks about how the world keeps spinning regardless of his presence, but HER world is still nothing without him. To have someone shake your life in such a great way- must be magical.
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Sweeney Todd | Diana | Kinky Boots | Carrie
"Something Good" - The Sound of Music. Because, to the state the obvious…. the lyrics, the melody and Julie Andrews’ voice. But I also love the simplicity of the song. It’s such a beautiful sentiment and it’s interpreted effortlessly.
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American Psycho | Shows for Days | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Cymbeline | Mamma Mia!
"Hey There" from The Pajama Game. I am pretty sure it was the first love song that I ever sang in public while I was a camper at French Woods. I love the melody and the simplicity of the song. The words have stuck with me since I first heard them. Also, it was recorded by Sammy Davis Jr., Rosemary Clooney and Sam Cooke. All of their interpretations are very different but equally incredible. It goes out to anyone still singing love songs to themselves this Valentine's Day.
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Tuck Everlasting | The Phantom of the Opera
When I was about three years old I was in a production of Carousel, and "If I Loved You" has since been my favorite. However, there is a sentimental song in Tuck Everlasting called "Time" that makes me a basket case. Last year I hid under the piano when it was sung during rehearsals so the cast wouldn't know I was sobbing...although if they see this they'll be looking for it once we start back with rehearsals. ;)
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She Loves Me
"In Buddy's Eyes," from Follies
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American Psycho | Kinky Boots | Wicked
"Say it Somehow" from Light in the Piazza. Love is the ultimate universal language. Also, because Matthew Morrison.
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Straight | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark
"Can You Feel the Love Tonight"- The Lion King. Hands down this is the most romantic, catchy, and love-filled song on Broadway. Those lions love each other so much! And those harmonies? I mean, come on!

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