Our show begins with its title character being robbed of everything but a Neil diamond CD, so Joshyboy would have little to say on the subject. But our highly intelligent cast agrees, the greatest love song in Broadway HISTORY is hands down... “Skimbleshanks” from Cats. Exactly, you’re shaking your head in agreement. Skimby’s passionate relationship with the guards, the porters AND the station master’s daughters? The raw sensuality of getting busy in the luggage van? Our hairs are on end just thinking about it, and our mandatory cast listening parties before EVERY show have been highly successful... despite what Actors’ Equity tells you.

"Being Alive" from COMPANY is one of my favorite, most moving Sondheim songs; it just cuts to the emotional core of needing someone to care, encourage and believe in you. My other all time favorite is "Sunrise, Sunset" from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, which always touches my heart and brings to mind how blessed I am to have such a wonderful family past and present.

One of my favorites is from Falsettos. *sings* "What would I do if I had not met you? Who would I blame my life on?" And now I'm going to start crying.

"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from DREAMGIRLS. Emotional, powerful, desperate, broken-hearted.

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...

My favorite Broadway love song is "The World is in My Arms" by Burton Lane.

Anything in Once! It's beautiful, current, loveliness on stage.

I have to say my favorite musical love song is "Sunrise" from In the Heights. It is not because I was a part of the show for so long. Matter of fact I was going to pick "Sunday" from Sunday in the Park with George. But I decided to go with the "Sunrise." "Sunday" for me is about a man and his love for his art. "Sunrise" is wonderful and lovely. It is passionate and cultural. To hear love being shared in both languages, but more importantly to hear the faith in love prevail even with doubt present. The moment two lovers share their morning together, never falling asleep. A true love moment.

I've always loved "How To Handle a Woman" from Camelot for its simplicity. King Arthur is left completely baffled and not understanding of his wife's (Queen Guenevere) actions, and he concludes the following: “How to handle a woman? / Mark me well, I will tell you, sir / The way to handle a woman / Is to love her, simply love her / Merely love her, love her, love her." Such a simple and honest way of expressing unconditional love!

It's absurdly difficult to pick just one favorite love song from the vast Broadway canon. So here are two: "If I Loved You" from Carousel, music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. A song of early love, where the singers are as yet too guarded to openly declare themselves to each other, so Hammerstein uses that magic "if" to try to hold the deeply romantic and prescient poetry at a distance, while Rodgers' gorgeous and poignant melody and harmonies are sweeping and passionate, far beyond the more hesitant words. The second is "Not A Day Goes By" from Merrily We Roll Along, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Here, the declaration of love is almost abrasive, obsessive; resentful, even -- so full and absorbing that it's almost painful, as reflected in the repeated and hammered "Day after day after day after day after day," and phrases like, "I keep thinking, 'when does it end?'" Still, the raw love expressed is heart-rending and true to the core.

"Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" - when it's sung by Bryan Batt.

When I was very, very young I loved this song. I went to see this show when I was 11 years old and it had such a big influence on me. "What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line.

My favorite Broadway love song right now is "Changing My Major" from Fun Home. I mean, it hit me hard for a lot of reasons but I couldn't believe it was a waltz. I just thought that was so bold. Like, what a purposefully pretty choice. That song is just enchanting.

"Can You Feel the Love Tonight." It puts it right out there and it's also a childhood favorite song that still rings true today.

A tie: “They Were You” from The Fantasticks (not Broadway, but....) and “If I Loved You” from Carousel.

‘“How Could I Ever Know” from Secret Garden has me messed up every time. It’s love beyond the grave. It’s loving so much you let them go. It’s Mandy and Rebecca. Why am I crying in the club rn?”

"Stay With Me" from Into the Woods. It may not be a coventional love song, but it's about the love that a mother can have for her child- a challanging and complicated kind of love. I think it's so beautiful and haunting.

"I Could Write A Book" from PAL JOEY - inextricably due to the fact that it was my wedding "first dance" song.

"Gold" from Once. While the lyrics are beautiful, what sets it apart from other love songs is the orchestration behind it. Musically, as a whole, it comes together to make the perfect love song.

'Suddenly Seymour' from Little Shop of Horrors

"One Hand, One Heart” from West Side Story - Tony, Maria, dress shop mannequins and a pretend wedding ceremony that all of a sudden becomes as real as if they were kneeling in front of the alter at St. Patrick's Cathedral. One hand, one heart - two uniting as one forever and vowing it only to each other. How beautiful is that?!

Right now, I’m loving "Not While I’m Around" from Sweeney Todd. Acts of service is my love language and, to me, this song is about loving and protecting family. The days I keep my six year old boy safe from demons or stormtroopers are the days I’m winning as a dad.

I have to give a shout-out to Jason Robert Brown’s “It All Fades Away” from The Bridges of Madison County. Who cares it it’s about an affair?! It’s a phenomenal love song! So smart, so much heart, and just incredibly powerful. Close runner-up, if I’m allowed to choose from a show I worked on: “Hangin’ Out in A Smoky Bar” from Bill Russell and Peter Melnick's The Last Smoker in America

"With You" from PIPPIN

My favorite Broadway love song is "Written in the Stars" from Aida. No matter what happens, if it's meant to be, it's gonna be. The year, place, person doesn't matter. If it's written in the stars, you will find each other.

"I Don't Know How to Love Him" by Andrew Lloyd Webber from Jesus Christ Superstar. Mostly because it's my favorite "shower song" but also because love is confusing and bewildering and I think the song captures that quite well.

It's gotta be "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar. It's so full of passion, love and confusion. That brown album was such an influential part of who I am and what I do.

When she was barely fourteen years old, auditioning for Spring Awakening, Lea Michele sang “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” -- and wounded me. For the next eight years, she continually added salt to the wound, singing “The Word of Your Body” to Gavin Creel, Ben Walker, and Jonathan Groff, successively. Last year, while prepping for a concert, she once more became my Valentine, asking what I wanted her to sing. Without hesitation, I replied “If I Loved You.” Instead, she sang “Some Lovers,” from my forthcoming show The Gift of the Magi -- and finally killed me.

"How Could I Ever Know" from THE SECRET GARDEN

My favorite love song is "Too Many Mornings," because it is written by a composer/lyricist who people sometimes suggest doesn't have a deep vulnerability and pure passion. I listen to that song and think, "Folks, your'e wrong!" The song makes me cry every time I hear it. Musically and lyrically, I think it's a masterpiece.