Marshall Paillet and A. D. Penedo's BAGHDADDY (OR HOW I STARTED THE IRAQ WAR) is an intelligent, hilarious, and insane account of the miscommunications and confirmation biases that led to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. The show is relentlessly paced with a high-octane score, but right before the act break we hear a solo banjo playing an easy, beautiful melody: the unrequited love song "Music To Me". In a story with a guaranteed unhappy ending, it is a moment of simplicity, light, and stillness. Paillet's music/lyrics/vocal arrangement and Ethan Slater's straightforward, honest performance made the whole audience lean forward.

“If I Loved You" from Carousel (The Bench Scene) is the perfect musical theatre love song. They never directly say what they are thinking, they flirt and smoothly flow from singing to talking, and it’s exactly how I wish real life was!

One of my favorite love songs is "What Makes Me Love Him?" from THE APPLE TREE. It's a song that I love to sing and listen to. I love the story telling and it just warms my heart.

One of my favorites is "Where or When" just because I think it is one of the most perfect songs. It's so intimately sung and the way that it's built always makes the hair stand up on my arms. I think it's perfect for Valentine's Day.

The first musical I saw was Carousel. "If I Loved You" made a big impression. I love that song. And then Porgy & Bess, "I Loves You, Porgy." I would say from La Boheme, "Mi chiamano, Mimi." And then I started writing songs and I happen to love the songs. I was very taken by love songs. And I would say some of the songs that I wrote: "How Could I Ever Know" (The Secret Garden) was such an important song. And from Doctor Zhivago, "On the Edge of Time" with Lara and Yurii, their love song. And also another love song that they sang was "Now." "The only time is now," and I think so much as I get older and I don't have that many years to enjoy my life, I've realized that the only time is now. Now I have to live in the full, and I think that song, "Now," that lyric, is brilliant and I think that it expresses that moment that if you don't say "I love you" now then you might miss that opportunity.

My favorite Broadway love song is “So in Love” by Cole Porter. When I was 9 years old I saw the Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate with Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell. They play two people in love who can’t seem to figure it out. They both sing this song (she in act 1, he in act 2) but only once the other person has left the stage. I remember my nine year old brain wrestling with the thought, “love is…complicated?!" To this day, I feel that “So In Love" is the most perfect expression how powerful, consuming, and humbling love is.

I would have to say the song "All the Things You Are" from the musical Very Warm for May by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II is at the top of my list for favorite Broadway love songs.

I think “Till There Was You” from The Music Man is one of the most sublime songs ever written. And I don’t think I’m alone in feeling this way, seeing as how it was the only Broadway song covered by The Beatles.

“PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHT”.....the record was found by us, as children, in my Uncle Pete's attic. My sisters, cousins and I listened to it; due to the kickass cover. We fell in love with the song immediately. We created several different enactments of the song and enjoyed performing it, ad infinitum, to any and all in our immediate vicinity.

One of my favorite Broadway love songs is "Happiness" from Stephen Sondheim's Passion.

One of my all time favorite love songs from a musical is “I’ll Cover You” from RENT. The lyrics are so beautiful and it makes me cry every time

"If Ever I Would Leave You" from Camelot because it allows my baritone voice to ring out.

“Almost Like Being in Love” from Brigadoon. Unadulterated, joyful, uncynical, not-too-clever, golden-era, and with perfect memories of Gene Kelly.

"Somewhere" from West Side Story. Simple and to the point. No matter what we'll find a way to overcome all obstacles and be together. Somehow, Someday, Somewhere... Where's my tissue?...

"Suddenly Seymour" from Little Shop of Horrors. The moment the bombshell realizes she is in love with the misfit. A great song from a great show and so fulfilling to sing because it is written so well!

My favorite Broadway love song is "All The Things You Are." It's classic and it speaks to holistically what it means to be in love with someone, in better words than I could ever use or come up with.

"Some Enchanted Evening" from SOUTH PACIFIC--how is it possible to have a more romantic song than this??

I'd say one of my favorite love songs is "If I Loved You" from Carousel because I have been there....not admitting how much you love and care for someone, when inside you are really feeling ALL the feelings. Unrequited love can be romantic and nostalgic.

My favorite is “Somewhere” from West Side Story.

"Somewhere." When I was growing up it was glued to the turntable. We played it endlessly, it really touches me. I've been with my wife for 37 years now and that song means a lot to me.

"If I Loved You" from Carousel.

My favorite Broadway love song is "All the Things You Are," by Jerome Kern, which is actually from a musical called Very Warm for May- that I have never seen and probably never will! I grew up hearing my mother sing that song and I just think it's the most beautiful odes to a loved one ever written.

"My Funny Valentine" even though it's not any related to Valentine's day! To this day, the B minor, Frank Sinatra version is among my favorite love songs especially if it's being played on my dad's old cassette player in Iran.

Wow, I don't have much experience in this area.......I'm only 11.......but I do know music! So, I am going to have to say "On my Own" sung by Eponine in LES MIS. During the run of LES MIS I would go onstage every night singing "Castle on a Cloud" (another beautiful song...but not quite a love song) and be wishing I could also sing "On My Own" and play Eponine (one of my DREAM roles). Still, IN THE HEIGHTS is probably my favorite show ever. In fact I cried the night it closed on Broadway! I would say "Sunrise" from IN THE HEIGHTS, this is sung by Benny and Nina (another dream role...)!

“Try To Remember” from The Fantasticks. A beautifully flowing melody combined with gorgeous, profound, yet, deliciously simple lyrics makes this an all-time favorite. The song enables me to breathe easier and slow down - and is a constant reminder of why this business of theater can be so incredibly magical. "Try to remember, and if you remember, then follow.”

I choose "All The Way" by Sammy Kahn from the musical Robin and the Seven Hoods. My husband Brian and I met and fell in love on that show in the summer of 2010. Brian and I slow danced during every show backstage while Kelly Sullivan sang "All The Way." We were married in the Fall of 2011.

For me, Off-Broadway counts just as much as Broadway! So I'd have to say a little section of "I Can Do Better Than That," from The Last Five Years. The lyrics are just... perfect: "You don't have to change a thing, just stay with me. I want you, and you, and nothing but you. Miles and piles of you. Finally I'll have something worthwhile to think of each morning. You, and you, and nothing but you. No substitution will do..." Simple, honest, and straight-forward. And basically what I think every time I take a look at my girlfriend.

"Angels" by Robin Thicke

For me, It's "Dulcinea" from MAN OF LA MANCHA. I saw Raul Julia do it on tour in San Francisco when I was 12, so maybe I'm just in the thrall of my own nostalgic associations, but I think there's something massively appealing about the argument that our idealized, poetic notions of the people we love are sometimes truer and more powerful than reality.