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They say that falling in love is wonderful... and doesn't Broadway know it! 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.

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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.
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Boop! The Musical | Kinky Boots | Catch Me If You Can | Hairspray | Legally Blonde | La Cage Aux Folles
"I Have Dreamed" from The King and I.
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Critic and Columnist | Author
"Warm All Over" from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA by Frank Loesser.
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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.
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Priscilla Queen of the Desert | La Cage Aux Folles | A Chorus Line
'Till There Was You' from The Music Man
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Romeo and Juliet
That's a tricky one. My favorite Broadway love song... "Losing My Mind," I think. All of his music was so beautiful.
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Bullets Over Broadway | Curtains | Contact | Steel Pier
I always get choked up on "If I Loved You" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. It's kind of a bittersweet love song, but it's one of my favorites.
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The Wiz | Maggie Flynn
"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME.
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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.
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Mamma Mia! | A Little Night Music | Impressionism | A Tale of Two Cities | Les Misérables | The Light in the Piazza | The Last Ship
"Love to Me," Fabrizio to Clara from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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The Producers | Jekyll & Hyde
"My favorite Broadway love song is “Someone Like You” from the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde. I have performed the song on stage, and now in concerts around the world and it really resonates with me because it’s kind of the story of my life...the story of me and my wife, Hayley… "someone like you found someone like me."
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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.
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The Confession of Lily Dare | The Third Story | The Tale of the Allergist's Wife | Die Mommy Die | Taboo
"Too Many Mornings" from Follies. I love the complexity of emotions in this song. Regrets for the past, present needs, fantasy for the future. And oh, that gorgeous lush melody.
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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.
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Theatre Writer
"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!
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Schmigadoon | Mrs. Doubtfire | Something Rotten! | Big Fish | The Addams Family | Monty Python's Spamalot | The Producers | Jekyll & Hyde | Aspects of Love
"My Friends" from Sweeney Todd because who doesn't love a good razor?!
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Honeymoon in Vegas | The Producers | A View from the Bridge | 'Who's the Boss,' 'Taxi'
"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS
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La Cage aux Folles | Moon Over Buffalo | Camelot | The Happy Time
For the most romantic Broadway 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.
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State Fair | Beauty and the Beast | Starlight Express | Les Miserables | Annie
There are so many! I think that Irving Berlin's "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorites.
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(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!!!
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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!
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Colin Quinn: Long Story Short
"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.
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The Fantasticks | Seussical
I don't really have a favorite Broadway love song because there are so many great ones! Here are a few of my favorites: “On My Own” from Les Miserables, “Seasons Of Love” from Rent, “Sun And Moon” from Miss Saigon, “As Long As You’re Mine” from Wicked, “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific, “What I Did For Love” from A Chorus Line, “All I Ask Of You” from The Phantom of the Opera, “One Hand One Heart” from West Side Story and of course anything from The Fantasticks.
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Composer/Lyricist - Opposite of Sex | No Way to Treat a Lady | Children's Letters to God
I'd have to say "OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY" is my favorite romantic song. It was Cathy and my wedding song and represents a beautiful marriage between music and lyrics. Also, knowing it was the last song George Gershwin wrote before he died gives the song an added poignancy. Ira was writing of his love for his brother and the hope that George's legacy would survive the test of time. Thanks to their brilliance, it's a timeless song.

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