'Till There Was You' from The Music Man

That's a tricky one. My favorite Broadway love song... "Losing My Mind," I think. All of his music was so beautiful.

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.

"Sarah Brown Eyes" from RAGTIME.

"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.

"Love to Me," Fabrizio to Clara from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.

"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.

"Too Many Mornings" from FOLLIES. The thought of a great lost love kills/is killing me even as I write this.

"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.

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."

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.

"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.

"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."

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.

"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.

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.

"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!

“Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True” from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It was the first Broadway show that my husband and I saw together, and that song, so lovely, romantic, ridiculous and hilarious, became very special to us.

"I've Never Been in Love Before" from GUYS AND DOLLS

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.

There are so many! I think that Irving Berlin's "I Got Lost In His Arms" is one of my all-time favorites.

"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!!!

"If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL. It's just the best love song - I'm serious!

"Maybe This Time" from Cabaret.

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.

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.

My songs would be "If I Loved You" from CAROUSEL and "On the Street Where You Live" from MY FAIR LADY.

I think Irving Berlin's song "What'll I Do" from THE MUSIC BOX REVUE is terribly romantic and melancholy. And I love it when Bernadette (Peters) sings it!

I find Gershwin's music to be incredibly romantic. To me, his most passionate theater song is the 1935 PORGY AND BESS duet, "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," with lyrics by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. I have loved this score since I was a child -- it was ahead of its time in the '30s when it was written and in many ways it still is today.

That is a tough one. There are so many. I don't know if some of these were written for Broadway but, "Always", "I'll Be Seeing You", "So In Love" etc... are on the list and I'm sure there will be many who would include the same one I would if I were to do something typical. So, I don't know that this is the most romantic song ever written... but it's a newly discovered favorite of mine. Trying to avoid self promotion but... the song "I'll Buy You A Star" from A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is quite extraordinary. It's about a guy who loves his girl so much that he can't think of any way to express what she means to him. He wants to promise her riches, ermine and diamonds, but says that nothing on this earth would be good enough for her. So he'll have to do his shopping up in the dark-blue night sky. He'll buy her a star, but not just any star, THE BEST ONE in the sky. He promises a cloud to sleep on and a silver chain made from the rain of a summer afternoon. All these things he'll get for her but won't be happy until he buys the moon. The ultimate symbol of his overwhelming love. I'm a sucker for romantic imagery like this. Dorothy Fields (lyrics) and Arthur Schwartz (music) have captured, beautifully, a man who loves so much that only ethereal imagery would be able to begin to summize his feelings. The Chorus: I'LL BUY YOU A STAR, NOT JUST A STAR, BUT THE BEST ONE IN THE SKY. YOU'LL HAVE A CLOUD TO SLEEP ON, A CLOUD AS LIGHT AS AN ANGELS SIGH. A FINE SILVER CHAIN MADE FROM THE RAIN OF A SUMMER AFTERNOON. I'LL BUY YOU A STAR MY DARLING, BUT I WON'T REST UNTIL I BUY THE MOON.