WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
#2WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 10:17amDid anyone pick "Not a Day Goes By"? That's my favorite...this year. I always love reading this feature.
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#2WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 10:49am
I think "All I Ask of You," as cliche as it probably sounds, is my favorite Broadway love song. It's beautiful and I still love the denotation of marriage as "one love, one lifetime".
Other contenders would include "One, Hand, One Heart" from "West Side Story" and "Married" from "Cabaret".
#3WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 11:02amjv92, Harvey Fierstein picked "Not a Day Goes By."
My avatar = A screencap from Avatar, arguably the greatest animated show of all
#4WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 12:23pm
One song that I didn't see mentioned was "My Cup Runneth Over" from I Do! I Do! I find that song to be very romantic and poignant.
Songs that were mentioned that I whole-heartedly agree with were "Loving You" (obviously), "Will He Like Me?" and "Yours, Yours, Yours."
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#5WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 12:59pmAh, thank you James2. I thought I had came across it, but skimming through I wasn't sure.
#6WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 6:18pmI thought it was interesting how many people picked, "If I Loved You." From an unscientific glance down the lists, it seemed to come up pretty often.
"What was the name of that cheese that I like?"
"you can't run away forever...but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start"
"well I hope and I pray, that maybe someday, you'll walk in the room with my heart"
#7WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 6:52pm
Nobody mentioned Marianne from The Grand Tour. 
That's defintely one of my favorite romantic songs.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#8WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 8:29pmOn The Street Where You Live????????? Really? That song gives me the creeps. Talk about stalkerish.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#9WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/14/11 at 9:51pm
Carly Simon said that Anna sings "Something Wonderful." Isn't it Lady Thiang?
My pick this year is "Some Girls" from Once on This Island.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
Updated On: 2/14/11 at 09:51 PM
#10WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/15/11 at 12:04am
"If I Loved You" was the runaway winner.
Other strong showings:
"Some Enchanted Evening"
"Somewhere" and "One Hand One Heart" from West Side Story
Most surprising to me was the strong showing of the Kern/Hammerstein ballad "All the Things You Are" which was from a flop 1939 musical "Very Warm for May" but has one of the most beautiful melodies ever written. It was competing for second.
Pleased to see how well Rodger and Hart did and in particular that "My Funny Valentine," whose lyrics Sondheim savaged in his book for "mis-stressed syllables and convoluted syntax," was chosen about as many times as all Sondheim compositions combined.
If this arrogant man had written his lyrics to please the audience and not his English professor then he might have had half the popular and commercial success of Rodgers and Hart.
Updated On: 2/15/11 at 12:04 AM
finishmyhat
Understudy Joined: 1/5/11
#11WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/15/11 at 1:19am
Sad no one, as a joke or for seriousness, mentioned "Evening Prayers" from Carrie.
Romantic love or not, it's one of the most beautiful duets about a love bond so strong that only death can tear the two apart.
#12WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/15/11 at 2:37am
givesmevoice, Taylor Hicks mentioned "My Cup Runneth Over," which is surprising and also sort of hilarious, haha.
Anyway mine changes depending on the day, but right now my favorites would probably be "So Many People" from Saturday Night and "My White Knight" from The Music Man. If you asked me tomorrow you'd probably get a different answer, there are so many songs that I love.
raker
Stand-by Joined: 12/27/08
#13WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/15/11 at 7:17pm"They Were You." The Fantasticks.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#14WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/15/11 at 9:39pmLove To Me, from Light in the Piazza, would be the most romantic recent song.
#15WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/16/11 at 2:56pm
OlBlueEyes-
There's no denying that Rodgers and Hart are great, but Mr. Sondheim does bring up a few interesting points-- and most of them are right!
And I think Sondheim's lyrics are audience-pleasers. The problem is, the idiot audiences of today aren't listening hard enough.
#16WHAT IS THE MOST ROMANTIC BROADWAY LOVE SONG EVER? 600 Stars Tell Us!
Posted: 2/16/11 at 3:18pmIt wouldn't typically be called a 'love song', but Do You Love Me, from Fiddler, would get my vote.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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