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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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The Who's Tommy | Company | A Bronx Tale
"If I Loved You". It's the perfect scene and perfect song.
Performer
Mamma Mia
"New Words" by Maury Yeston. I've always appreciated song writing but now that we have a little baby boy in our lives "New Words" brings tears to my eyes every time.
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Wicked
"The Proposal/The Night Was Alive" from Titanic. I love the humanity in that song, so beautifully depicted in the sweeping melodies and lyrics. I can't listen to it without crying.
Performer
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.
Performer
Paarde
"All the Wasted Time" from Parade. I got to watch two people do it a lot... and they were really good at it!
Performer
Mack & Mabel | Tootsie | Spongebob Squarepants | Spring Awakening
My favorite Broadway love song is "Being Alive" from Company. It is about all of the things that love encompasses- the good and the bad. I think that's really important to remember when it comes to love.
Performer
An American in Paris
I would have to say Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Unexpected Song" from Tell Me on a Sunday. The lyrics describe exactly how love should feel.
Performer
Sunshine Cleaning | What Happens In Vegas | Maid in Manhattan | Mickey Blue Eyes | Swingers | All-American Girl | Some Kind of Wonderful
That's an easy one for me because my first dance with Jace at our wedding was "They Were You" from The Fantasticks. Jace had our friends record a version for us to play that day - Sherie Rene Scott and Toby Parker (Two of Broadway's finest and two amazing friends) sang a gorgeous rendition for our Big Day. It was a song that J and I sang to one another during our bi-coastal courtship. "All my wildest dreams multiplied by two - they were you they were you... they were you!" Happy Valentine's Day!
Director
Prayer for the French Republic | The Sound Inside | The Band's Visit | The Waverly Gallery
"I Get a Kick Out of You" because it is deeply felt, while pretending to be casual.
Performer
Aint Too Proud | Beautiful | Wonderland | The Scottsboro Boys | A Chorus Line | The Music Man
Since I’m single for once again another year! My pick for my favorite Broadway valentines song is:
“Someday My Prince Will Come.” I truly feel 2019 will be my year!
Performer
Chicago | Kiss Me Kate | My Fair Lady | Cats
It feels impossible to just pick one, but I have always loved “Till There Was You” from Music Man. I love how it acknowledges that these beautiful things were always present, but their love only enhanced their experience of it all. A close second is “Love to Me” from Light in the Piazza. So simple and melodious.
Performer
Party Face | Red Roses | Green Gold
Chess- "I Know Him So Well" - Brings me back to my childhood every time!!
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How to Succeed | Memphis | Spamalot
My favorite Broadway love song? That's a tough question. I guess I'll pick "All The Wasted Time" from PARADE because that is one of my all time fave musicals. It's not a typical love song, but it's so moving when they finally realize their love for each other. Just beautiful.
Performer
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
Performer
Jekyll and Hyde | Aida
"Somewhere" from West Side Story – this song gets me every single time. One of my all-time favorites. The first time I heard it, I literally wept. I thought it was so beautiful, so passionate and I absolutely adored the melody and words of the song. "Someday..... somewhere..." The lyric that really says it all for me is that "there's a place for us." I love how romantic that line is. That no matter what the odds are, or if the world doesn't understand this kind of love, that there is a place... Somewhere.....I hope to record my own version of the song one day.
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An American in Paris | A Free Man of Color | La Cage Aux Folles | Caroline | or Change
My favorite Broadway love song of all time is "Sorry Grateful." It is simply the best song ever written about the truth of loving another.
Performer
The Phantom of the Opera | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Les Miserables | Shrek the Musical | Big Fish | On the Twentieth Century
I think it counts because of Movin' Out- I've always loved Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are." Simply saying to be yourself because individual differences are what make people fall in love. My wife & I danced to this at our wedding and it still gets me every time
Performer
Annie | Billy Elliot | Into the Woods
"My Heart Was Set on You", which is on Sutton Foster's WISH Album. It has been my favorite since I was little!
Performer
Anything Goes | The Little Mermaid | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
I think my favorites come from West Side Story. Almost classical in their composition.'Maria' is tops. That rush of new love and the name of the person who lit that fire "suddenly that name, will never be the same to me!" It is soaring and passionate, then quiet and simple. It says it all.
Performer
Grease
I'm gonna have to go with "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. Ya know, Prince Eric and Ariel in the boat surrounded by flying glowing bugs under a big willow tree. I mean any song by Alan Menken. he pretty much shaped my entire childhood. The only unromantic thing about that song is that they don't get to kiss at the end! Flotsum and Jetsum... HAHA. But other than that, Sebastian can come on any of my dates with me...
Performer
Suffs
"It all Fades Away" from The Bridges of Madison County will forever be the most beautiful love song to me. I’m embarrassed by how much I’ve listened to it. And that interlude into the bridge?! Brings me to tears EVERY time.
Performer
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark | Jacques Brel Returns | Jekyll and Hyde
It's difficult to choose just one love song to be my favorite,but, if I must I would pick a little known song by Teddy Randazzo called, "All The Way Home". It is tender, romantic and heartfelt. I feel warm each time I hear it and sing it which is the main reason I put it on my new album, "The Look Of Love."
Director
Significant Other | Take Me Out | Six Degrees of Separation
My favorite Broadway love song is "If I Loved You." The lyric is so brilliant because they can't say it, so they say IF I loved you.
Performer
Paramour
My favorite song that is a Broadway love song is “Memory” because I’m real sad, and I love a sad broad moment, thank you.
Performer
Dancin'
I’d have to say “You Outta Be Here With Me” from Big River. My mom introduced me to this show when I was a kid, we would sing it from top to bottom for years. Anytime I miss my mom, a friend, or a lover, I go to this song to pull on my heart strings.
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The Unsinkable Molly Brown | Caren Jones | The Book of Mormon | Big River
My favorite would have to be "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" from
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Next to Normal | Spider Man: Turn Off the Dark | American Psycho
"The Next Ten Minutes" from THE LAST FIVE YEARS
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Porgy & Bess | Anything Goes | Promises | Promises | Les Miserables | Lestat | Nine | Aida
My choice for most romantic Broadway song ever is "One Hand, One Heart." It was sung at my wedding
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