"A Little Priest" (from Sweeney Todd, by Stephen Sondheim) may be my favorite love song from musical theatre. While not discussing love at all, it is the moment when Sweeney sees Mrs. Lovett in a "positive" light for the first time, and she wins what she believes to be his affection. The fact that it condenses the entire world-view of the show, as well as being a defining plot point, is what makes it, for me, an incredible love song. Also, I enjoy morbid jokes that rhyme a lot.

My favorite is "More Than You Know" from a little known musical GREAT DAY in 1929. My favorite song. Period. Simple, heartfelt, and it has been my favorite song forever. Even as a little kid, I loved it. I love two other "know" songs: "You'll Never Know" (not from a Broadway show) and "I'll Know" from GUYS AND DOLLS. But I love the other one MORE!

"The One I Love" from Hello Again because it is perfect.

"The Next Ten Minutes" from The Last Five Years. You have this two-hander where the couple doesn’t interact; they’re not even moving in a linear timeline, but then, for ten minutes, they come together and we get to see them have this cathartic, honest, gorgeous moment that helps us to understand how it once worked before time, lies, and life warped everything. Oh gosh, and that moment of counterpart at the end right before they finally and at long last harmonize is so expertly and heartbreakingly crafted, and it lingers just long enough before we are once again literally sent off in different directions. 10/10 minutes, without question.

A favorite mine would be “Can You Feel the Love Tonight?” from The Lion King. Being a 90’s baby myself, it evokes such nostalgia from the movie. I don’t think you can hit the nail on the head more than this one.

I've gotta go with two. "My Funny Valentine" because it's got killer lyrics - "My funny valentine/Sweet comic valentine/You make me smile with my heart/ Your looks are laughable/Unphotographable/Yet you're my favorite work of art." Come on!! Then, "Some Enchanted Evening," because it is a great romantic song, but also because when I opened in a run of SOUTH PACIFIC, my husband sent me a beautiful watercolor he had painted of a sunset with the words "Once you have found her, never let her go" written across the sky....now that's romantic!

My favorite Braodway love song is "Love to Me" by Adam Guettel.

"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.

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.

"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.

"They Were You" from The Fantasticks

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.

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.

“They Can’t Take That Away From Me”

"Santa Fe" from Rent. I'm a Rent baby. That show meant everything to me as a kid and I still sing that song to myself almost daily.

"Wheels of a Dream" from Ragtime because it's Audra and that's all you need to know.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

'Say It Somehow' from The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel

"I'm Not That Girl" from WICKED. I just saw WICKED. I loved that song!

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.

"Heather On the Hill" from Brigadoon. It has to be something by Lerner & Lowe.

"Waitin' for My Dearie" from Brigadoon which is a beautiful, beautiful love song.

"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.

"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.

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.

“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!”

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.