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Nick Jonas - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Annie Get Your Gun, Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables
All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera. I love the melodies in the song. I feel like the music compliments the acting and the story line in a truly remarkable way.

Michael Urie - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Temperamentals, Ugly Betty
If I Loved You" from Carousel. I was reminded of it in Patti Lupone and Mandy Patikin's show, it's like a three act play rolled into one gorgeous song.

Linda Eder - Jekyll & Hyde; Recording Artist & Concert Star
'On the Street Where You Live' from My Fair Lady

Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Nightclubs, Television, Films, Concerts, Recordings, Director, Activist
The first song that comes to mind is Rodgers & Hammerstein's "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just about the most perfect love song written for the theater. I admire the intelligence of the lyric's premise -- two people each too shy to express their love, so they couch their true feelings in the form of a question, and then pretend it hardly matters...when of course they know it does. With its heart swelling melody, it never ceases to touch people. A few years ago during my last concert tour I loved singing Maury Yeston's "Unusual Way" from NINE. It's about those kinds of relationships where love isn't easily defined.

Joy Behar - THE VIEW
"Do You Love Me" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

Whoopi Goldberg - THE VIEW
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL

Elisabeth Hasselbeck - THE VIEW
"On My Own" from LES MISERABLES

Sherri Shepherd - THE VIEW
"When the Sun Goes Down" from IN THE HEIGHTS

Barbara Walters - THE VIEW
"This Nearly Was Mine" from SOUTH PACIFIC

Susan Boyle - International Singing Sensation
"Music of the Night" from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Kelsey Grammer - LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL

Raul Esparza - Arcadia, Speed-the-Plow, Company, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Taboo
Today, for some reason, I keep thinking of WITHOUT YOU from Rent. Not the happiest of choices, yeah, but there's a version that Mary Chapin Carpenter did at Jon Larson's memorial, just her voice and her guitar, that makes me weep for its beauty. It's a rainy day, longing for someone, achy song that hurts so sweetly. And I've always had a soft spot for NEW WORDS by Maury Yeston. It's a parent singing to their child. Very simple and very difficult to define love. And the love in one's family, one's home, wherever you create it, is the deepest love of all. Ask me again tomorrow. I'll have a different answer.

Joel Grey - ANYTHING GOES, WICKED, CHICAGO, CABARET
My favorite Broadway love song is "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL

Bernadette Peters - Follies, A Little Night Music, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Into The Woods, Song and Dance, Sunday in the Park with George, Broadway Legend
"Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC... well like the song says ....'fools give you reasons wise men never try.' Also, "Happiness" from PASSION is so in the moment when the love is happening.

Catherine Zeta-Jones - A Little Night Music
"Send in the Clowns" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

Chita Rivera - West Side Story, Chicago, Kiss of a Spider Woman, Nine, Bye Bye Birdie, Broadway Legend
"Only Love" from ZORBA by Kander & Ebb. I love it because of the simplicity of the lyrics and the beautiful melody.

Brian Stokes Mitchell - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Ragtime, Kiss Me Kate, Man of La Mancha, Mail
I love "How Long Has This Been Going On?" from FUNNY FACE. Slightly more than 100 words. Beautiful melody, great simple, spare lyric that says loads about truly falling in love for the first time. One of the most sensual songs ever written. Makes me want to have a cigarette after I sing it. And I don't even smoke!

Rose Hemingway - How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
I think its a tie for me between "A Quiet Thing" from Flora and the Red Menace - its so simple and sweet and perfect - and "All the Wasted Time" from Parade. Its just such an honest and tragic love song. I'm a huge sucker for the tragedy, and what a beautiful melody!

Carly Simon - Singer/songwriter: Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar-winning Legend
"Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is the choice of the hour, because if you got me closer to the morning or the evening, it might be something else. But I keep referring to this one in my mind because it is the ultimate song of compassion. Anna sings it about the King of Siam, with all his self-obsessed and insecure ways. Even so, he is shocked out of self-absorbsion and his so oft rehearsed kingly 'performance' into a deeply, humanly compassionate and likely unselfconscious moment. The melody of the song is plenty, but it is the words that make me love everybody, for their humanity in its tiniest details.

Alan Menken - SISTER ACT, THE LITTLE MERMAID, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, LEAP OF FAITH
"Do You Love Me" from Fiddler On The Roof. But I've been married a long time. If you asked me 40 years ago, I would have said "On The Street Where You Live."

Jackie Hoffman - The Addams Family, Xanadu, Hairspray
I wrote a love song for my husband called "Can I Say F**k in Front of Your Parents?" It doesnt get anymore romantic than that.

Colin Quinn - Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.

Laura Osnes - BONNIE & CLYDE, ANYTHING GOES, SOUTH PACIFIC, GREASE
My favorite, most romantic Broadway love-song ever is "Some Enchanted Evening." In addition to the gorgeous melody and orchestration, the lyrics are so beautifully pure and romantic. It's about love at first sight, that unexplainable feeling of finding true love from across a crowded room. It makes cry almost every time I hear it.

Brooke Shields - Wonderful Town, Cabaret, Chicago, Grease, Leap of Faith
"I Believe My Heart" from The Woman in White.

Scarlett Johansson - A View From The Bridge
"I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" from MY FAIR LADY.

Barry Manilow - Harmony, Music & Passion, Copacabana
"My Heart Is So Full Of You" by Frank Loesser from the musical THE MOST HAPPY FELLA.

Lea Michele - GLEE, Spring Awakening, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Miserables, Ragtime
"Say It Somehow" from THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA is by far the most romantic Broadway song!

Johnny Mathis - Recording and Concert Superstar
"Stranger in Paradise" from KISMET. It's just glorious.

Idina Menzel - WICKED, RENT
"One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. That's my favorite!

Lin-Manuel Miranda - Bring it On, In the Heights
"So In Love" by Cole Porter is the correct answer. Everyone else is wrong. And know it's lame to name one of your own songs, but I had the rare opportunity to write "When You're Home" when I was ACTUALLY falling in love. My girlfriend and I had just started dating, and we'd grown up 15 blocks from each other all our lives and never known it. She gave me her tour of Washington Heights, I gave her my tour of Inwood, we were falling in love, and that's how When You're Home was born. When Benny sings, "Then can I say/I couldn't get my mind off you all day . . ." I lose it. Every time.

Hal Prince - Cabaret, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Tood, Evita, The Phantom of the Opera and LoveMusik among many, many more!
With apologies to probably a thousand songs that I almost equally love, still I would choose "Some Enchanted Evening". From the first bar in the song, I'm lost.

Chris Colfer - GLEE
"The Word of Your Body" from SPRING AWAKENING, and not just because I know the people who sing it.

Michael Crawford - The Wizard of Oz, The Woman in White, Dance of the Vampires, The Phantom of the Opera, Barnum, Billy, Flowers for Algernon
I think "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL is the most perfectly written love song. The matching of the lyric to the melody is sublime.

Cameron Mackintosh - The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Song and Dance, Little Shop of Horrors, Mary Poppins
"Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC.

Perez Hilton - PerezHilton.com
"Who Will Love Me As I Am?" from SIDE SHOW. One of the most exquisite songs of all time, from the theater or not. The music is beautiful and the lyrics touch me deeply. Everyone - at one point or another - has felt like an outsider, and this song expresses that beautifully. Thankfully, Broadway is a wonderful place where all the fabulous freaks can come together and have a sense of community. I love it and this song!

Thomas Schumacher - President/CEO - Disney Theatricals, Inc.
The MOST is always tricky, but the song that made me first understand grown up romance was "My White Knight" from The Music Man. It is often in my thoughts when I head home at night to my partner of 28 years.

Paul Gemignani - Pal Joey, 110 in the Shade, Company, Kistmet, Pacific Overtures, The Frogs, Assassins, Passion, Into the Woods, 1776, High Society, Big, Sunday in the Park with George, Crazy for You, Smile, The Rink, Jerome Robbins Broadway, The Rink, Evita, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along
Many thoughts and titles come to mind but Kern's last show wind. I say "All The Things You Are," from VERY WARM FOR MAY.

Corbin Bleu - In The Heights, Disney's High School Musical
"What is it About Her" from THE WILD PARTY. It is a really triumphant song and his turmoil is so beautiful.

Betty Buckley - Triumph of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Carrie, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Song & Dance, Cats, Pippin, Promises, Promises, 1776
"You're Nearer" from TOO MANY GIRLS by Rogers and Hart.

Matthew Morrison - GLEE, South Pacific, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Light in the Piazza, Hairspray, Rocky Horror Show, Footloose
Alright, this might sound weird coming from me, but I think the most romantic song in MT would have to be "As Long as He Needs Me" from Oliver. It is simply splendiferous!! Whenever someone gives me those little butterflies in my stomach, I usually sing this song ... except I just change the he to a she!

Alan Cumming - Cabaret, The Threepenny Opera
"I Won't Send Roses" from MACK & MABEL. I think being honest about your shortcomings is much more useful than talking about candlelight dinners and what rate your heart is beating at.

Sierra Boggess - Master Class, Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid
"What About Love?" from The Color Purple. I think the most incredible part of falling in love is the unpredictability of it which is what this song describes. True love makes you realize that it has no boundaries of gender or race and it may not come in the package you thought it would. This song is so beautiful to me, describing all those feelings of sudden realization that their lives will never be the same without eachother, but also that they realize their lives haven't meant as much until they found one another!

Olivia Newton-John - Grease, Xanadu, Grammy Award-Winning Recording Artist
"Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC

Kevin McHale - GLEE
"All I Ask of You" from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

Donna McKechnie - How to Succeed in Business, A Chorus Line, Promises, Promises, Company, On the Town, Can-Can, Annie Get Your Gun, State Fair, Follies, Babes in Arms
I thought this would be easy...it's not. Did I say "If Ever I Would Leave You" last time? "Always"? "My Heart is So Full of You"? "Some Enchanted Evening"? See what I mean? I should be more modern but I always think of the older shows. OK...I've just re-discovered "So Many People" from Saturday Night. So that's the one.

Eden Espinosa - RENT, Wicked, Brooklyn
My favorite romantic broadway song has always been "Unexpected Song". I totally relate to feeling that intstant sense of elation and confusion. "This is not like me at all, I never thought I'd know the kind of love you've shown me. Now no matter where I am, no matter what I do, I see your face appearing. Like an unexpected song that only we are hearing. "..........I mean come on!!!!!

Liza Minnelli - LIZA'S AT THE PALACE...!, Flora, The Red Menace, Chicago, The Act, The Rink, Victor/Victoria
"A Quiet Thing" from FLORA, THE RED MENACE

Rob Bartlett - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Odd Couple, Chicago, Sweet Charity, Little Shop of Horrors
For me, it's a tie:"One Hand, One Heart" and "Somewhere" from West Side Story. Both of them beautifully convey the innocence of First Love, and the bittersweet dream of a world where that love may live freely. They're tied with "Food, Glorious Food" from Oliver! Love may be fleeting, but Hot Sausages and Mustard are forever.

Montego Glover - Memphis, The Color Purple
“Never Been in Love Before” from GUYS AND DOLLS. I played Sarah Brown and I believe the song is a perfect love...thought!

Judith Light - Other Desert Cities, Lombardi, Ugly Betty, Herzel, A Doll's House
I have many favorite love songs from Broadway shows but one of my favorites is "Only Love" from the show SCARLET PIMPERNEL, music by Frank Wilhorn,lyrics by Nan Knighton, based on the novel by Baroness Orczy.

Alan Bergman - Legendary Composer/Lyricist
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from MY FAIR LADY.

Marilyn Bergman - Legendary Composer/Lyricist
"Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I.

Glenn Slater - SISTER ACT THE MUSICAL, LEAP OF FAITH, LOVE NEVER DIES, THE LITTLE MERMAID
Anything by George and Ira Gershwin. They always found a new way to say 'I love you.' I'd like to nominate their entire body of work!

Laura Michelle Kelly - Mary Poppins
“Unexpected Song" from the musical SONG & DANCE, originally sung by Bernadette Peters in 1984.

Anna Chlumsky - So Help Me God!, Unconditional, My Girl 1 & 2
"Being Alive" from COMPANY. I didn't have to think very long!

Polly Bergen - 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.

Ben Brantley - The New York Times
"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL.

Reeve Carney - SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK
I've been trying to think of one, but I'm not as well schooled in the great American theatre songbook as I am in Rock n' Roll. But I've thought of one... "A Man Doesn't Know" from Damn Yankees. It's definitely not THE most romantic, but it's romantic I think.

Janet Dacal - WONDERLAND, IN THE HEIGHTS
"Dammit Janet" from THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

Melora Hardin - Chicago, Les Miserables in Concert
There are so many songs I love, but I'd have to say "Something Wonderful" from THE KING AND I is definitely one of the most romantic ones I've heard.

Rob Marshall - NINE, Chicago The Film, Memoirs of a Geisha, Cabaret, Little Me, ...Forum
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" from PROMISES, PROMISES, because in the song the two main characters, Fran Kubelik and Chuck Baxter sing about never falling in love again, while they actually do.

Jerry Mitchell - KINKY BOOTS, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, LOVE NEVER DIES, LEGALLY BLONDE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, GYPSY, HAIRSPRAY and Others
"I Have Dreamed" from THE KING AND I.

Rex Reed - Legendary Critic and Columnist, Author
"Warm All Over" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser.

Laila Robins - 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.

Stephanie Mills - The Wiz, Maggie Flynn
"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME.

Lauren Nelson - Miss America 2007
"People Will Say We're in Love" from OKLAHOMA! is my favorite romantic Broadway song.

Kristin Chenoweth - Promises, Promises, Music in the Air, The Apple Tree, Wicked, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, RV, Bewitched, The West Wing
"Something Good" from THE SOUND OF MUSIC (film) and "Till There Was You" from THE MUSIC MAN

Adam Fleming - Altar Boyz, Wicked, Hairspray, BARE
So I've been thinking about this question and I keep going back to one song.......The Next Ten Minutes from The Last Five Years by the wonderful JRB.....Now I don't necessarily think of that as a love song.....Its not the classic "I love you" bs that is so often selected for the Broadway Love Songs books at Colony! However, this is what people talk about when they are in love! The lyrics are so real!....They touch on the real world issues of How do we make this work and I want to make this work. Theyre open about their problems but talk about the dreams they want to share! Opening up to someone is the hardest thing to do until you are truly in love! That to me is the most romantic thing EVER!

Gregory Jbara - 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.

Aaron Lazar - A Little Night Music, Impressionism, A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza
"Love to Me," Fabrizio to Clara from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.

Gavin Lee - Mary Poppins
It's so hard to just pick one song! So here are two... "Unusual Way" from NINE for the beautiful lyrics and "Unexpected Song" from SONG AND DANCE for the beautiful melody.

Ute Lemper - 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.

Jeff McCarthy - 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.

Steven Rosen - 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.

Jessica-Snow Wilson - Good Vibrations, Little Shop of Horrors, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Les Miserables
After weighing the obvious ("If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL) and the classic ("Tonight" from WEST SIDE STORY)and the sad (there are so many of these including "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Mis or "Not a Day Goes By" from MERRILY) John Carrafa and I both agreed that "I Chose Right" from BABY is probably the song that will always bring tears to our eyes with it's heartfelt lyrics and sentiment. "And I think about you, and I think about me loving you..."

Jerry Herman - La Cage aux Folles, Hello Dolly!, Mame, Mack & Mabel, Dear World
I picked five of my favorite songs, because each represents a different aspect of love. "My Heart Stood Still" (Rodgers and Hart) for the suddenness of love; "If I Loved You" (Rodgers and Hammerstein) for imagined love; "Here I'll Stay" (Lerner and Weill) for the solidity of love; "It Never Was You" (Kurt Weill) for the after love; "A Quiet Thing" (Kander and Ebb) for unexpected love and "Ill Be Seeing You" (Pop song) for the permanence of love."

Thomas Meehan - Young Frankenstein, Cry-Baby, The Producers, Hairspray, Annie, Bombay Dreams, I Remember Mama, Ain't Broadway Grand, To Be Or Not To Be, Spaceballs
I'd say, "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," from SHOWBOAT. Because, rather than being a lugubrious ballad, like most of Broadway's classic love songs, it's a bouncy and upbeat number that at the same time manages to be touching and sweetly melancholy.

Paige Price - Saturday Night Fever, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Beauty and the Beast
My choice is "This Nearly Was Mine." It's a song about loss, yes, but If you can find the version by Ed Alstrom (on "Acid Cabaret") I promise it will tear your heart out. The song aches with a missed opportunity, but you know that the singer is a changed person and will not let that chance pass again, which is ultimately most hopeful and romantic!

Mandy Gonzalez - WICKED, In The Heights, Lennon, Aida, Dance of the Vampires
It would have to be "One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. It fills my heart every time I hear it....

Todd Graff - 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.

David Hasselhoff - The Producers, Jekyll & Hyde, TV Star
"Someone Like You" (from JEKYLL & HYDE). The song is everyone's dream to meet someone that instinctively knows who you are, with just a look and a feeling and your life becomes complete.

Nathan Lane - The Addams Family, November, The Odd Couple, The Frogs, The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened..., Guys and Dolls, Love! Valour! Compassion!
"Too Many Mornings". It always makes me cry. Missed opportunity, longing and regret, exquisite lyrics and a melody that breaks your heart. That Sondheim kid has a big future.

David Zippel - City of Angels, The Goodbye Girl, The Woman In White, Princesses, Mulan, Hercules, Tarzan
Certainly one of the most romantic Broadways songs is "Lazy Afternoon" from THE GOLDEN APPLE. The music by Jerome Moross and the lyrics by John Latouche are so seductive. The 1975 Barbara Streisand recording is extraordinary.

Charles Busch - The Third Story, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Die Mommy Die, Taboo
"Some Enchanted Evening". This sounds a bit twisted but my father played Emile De Beque in a community theatre production and when I was a little kid listening to him sing that song, I thought it was just about the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

Liz Caplan - Vocal Coach
In light of the fact that there is going to be a musical based on the music of John Lennon, I would have to say that my favorite love song is "Here There and Everywhere" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It has a vulnerability in its lyrics while at the same time, there is an extremely challenging vocal line happening. The lyric "running my hands through her hair" shows a softness of heart and intimacy that only Lennon and McCartney could expose, all the while singing a most dexterous musical passage. "But to love her is to meet her everywhere". This song inspires me to love more and more deeply each time I hear it. It also challenges me as a musician and teacher.

Michael Musto - Village Voice
"People" from FUNNY GIRL, because when Barbra Streisand sang it, she was radiating love for Nicky Arnstein, humanity, musicals, and (most deservedly of all) herself!

Brad Oscar - The Addams Family, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Producers, Jekyll & Hyde, Aspects of Love
"A Little Priest" from SWEENEY TODD, because people, people who eat people, are the luckiest people in the world.

Glen Roven - Sugar Babies, Mastergate, Candles, Snow and Mistletoe, Patti LuPone on Broadway, A Meeting by the River, Let Me People Come
Hands down: "All The Things You Are". No question about it! On the other hand, it could be "If I Loved You". Yes, that's it. "If I Loved You", hands down. No question about it! Because the music expresses emotion about love...

Allan Stein - Columbia Records, Release Planning
One of my favorite romantic Broadway love songs is "My Heart is So Full of You" by Frank Loesser from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA

Jennifer Hope Wills - The Phantom of the Opera, Wonderful Town, Beauty in the Beast
This is a hard question for me because I am such a romantic at heart and have so many favorite romantic theatre songs. "If I Loved You", "How Could I Ever Know", "Loving You" and "On My Way to You" (although technically not a theatre song) are all at the top for me. Perhaps the most romantic song to me will always be "If Ever I Would Leave You". First of all I think the stories of King Arthur and his Camelot are extremely romantic as they are written and this song, to me, captures that sense of romance to perfection. This is a song that speaks of the enduring nature of true love and the pain and joys associated with it without ever even mentioning the word "love". To me that is pretty spectacular. Add to those words that incredible sweeping melody line and a gorgeous rich baritone voice and it will leave me weak in the knees every time.

Tony Danza - The Producers, A View from the Bridge, 'Who's the Boss,' 'Taxi'
"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS

Robert Goulet - La Cage aux Folles, Moon Over Buffalo, Camelot, The Happy Time
(1933 - 2007) For the most romantic Broadwayway 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.

Andrea McArdle - State Fair, Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express, Les Miserables, Annie
"Not While I'm Around" from SWEENEY TODD because it works on so many levels. Sondheim's lyrics capture Mrs. Lovett's and Tobias' moments perfectly. The entire score is both romantic and terrifying!

Eric Millegan - Harold & Maude, BONES
There are so many. But I'll go with the one that I was listening to in my car earlier today. "My Heart is So Full of You" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser. In the show, the relationship between the singers of this song (Tony and Rosabella) got off to a terribly shaky start built around lies and feelings of betrayal. But then they start over and start to truly fall in love with each other and they sing this song. Tony is so excited singing "My wife, she's a love me now!" And Rosabella releases herself of a life of wishes and dreams as she realizes that she has the real thing. Oh, I get so excited talking about it. Starting over. True love. "My Heart is So Full of You." That's my pick. Happy Valentine's Day.

Robert Jess Roth - Lestat, Beauty and the Beast, Opposite of Sex
"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from DREAMGIRLS. Emotional, powerful, desperate, broken-hearted.

Matthew Sklar - (Composer) The Wedding Singer, The Rhythm Club, Wicked City; (Associate Conductor) Caroline, or Change, Nine, 42nd Street, Titanic, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables
"One Hand, One Heart" from WEST SIDE STORY. Everytime I hear it it gets me. The orchestration is a masterpiece. The melody is beautiful and unpredictable. Also, it was the song my parents first danced to at their wedding. So good!!!

Jim Dale - 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!

Diana Kaarina - Les Miserables, RENT, Thoroughly Modern Millie
After much thought and deliberation, I was torn between quite a few songs (of course!). I narrowed it down and although I think "Some Enchanted Evening" has such beautiful lyrics, there is just something magical about "So In Love" (KISS ME, KATE) -- the melody and the emotion that it inspires - it is incredibly romantic as an instrumental alone! Cole Porter wrote so many amazing love songs. I would maybe choose his "True Love," but it was used in the movie "High Society", not on stage. Ah, well!

Marvin Laird - Arranger, Musical Director, Conductor: Bernadette Peters' Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Oh, Brother!, Broadway Follies, Perfectly Frank, One Night Stand, Georgy, The Happy Time, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Skyscraper, Ben Franklin in Paris.
My favorite, actually, was written by Broadway composers, but I don't think it was ever in a show. Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh wrote a song called "It Amazes Me".
If that's not legal, then my favorite from a show is "I Know Your Heart" from HIGH SPIRITS by Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin. That was actually my first Broadway show, for which I was the rehearsal pianist!

Stephanie Powers - A View From the Bridge, Oliver! Annie Get Your Gun, Hart to Hart, The Vagina Monologues
Although my reasons are personal, my favorite song is "He Was Too Good To Me" by Rodgers and Hart.

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