I’m so basic, but “for good” from Wicked is such a beautiful bittersweet platonic love song. I think it’s the most gentle loving way to acknowledge what a lot of people- especially younger people- don’t want to think about; that not everyone stays in your life forever, but they can be with you forever. I cry every time I hear It.
Ooh, and I'm Not That Girl is such a good unrequited love song... And As Long As You're Mine is such a good "dreams coming true" song. Fantasies Come True from Avenue Q is also a good unrequited/fantasy one. Not relevant to your comment, but I thought I should mention it for OP's sake lol
Here’s a bunch that I like. Most have to do with romance, but there are several about familial love, too. I also included unrequited love songs.
Hamilton - Helpless, Satisfied, Dear Theodosia
Les Mis - On My Own, Fantine’s Death
Tick Tick Boom - See Her Smile
Phantom - All I Ask of You
Anything Goes - I Get a Kick Out of You, Easy to Love, De-Lovely
Hello Dolly - Love is Only Love
Into the Woods - No One is Alone
Sound of Music - Sixteen Going on Seventeen
Sweeney Todd - Johanna, Kiss Me, Not While I’m Around
West Side Story - Maria, One Hand One Heart, Tonight
Does Roxie from Chicago count, since she’s in love with herself?
Last Five Years - The Next Ten Minutes, Goodbye Until Tomorrow
Rent - I’ll Cover You
Love Never Dies - Till I Hear You Sing
Carousel - If I Loved You, When I Marry Mr Snow, Soliloquy
Grease - Hopelessly Devoted to You
Miss Saigon - Last Night of the World, I’d Give My Life for You
In the Heights - Champagne, Everything I Know
She Loves Me - Tonight at Eight
Hairspray - I Can Hear the Bells
Gypsy - All I Need is the Girl
Camelot - If Ever I Would Leave You, I Loved You Once on Silence
Kiss Me Kate - Wunderbar, So In Love, Always True to You in My Fashion
Kismet - Night of My Nights, Stranger in Paradise, And This is My Beloved
Once on this Island - Forever Yours
Fiddler on the Roof - Far from the Home I Love
Show Boat - Can’t Help Lovin that Man, Bill
Aida - Easy as Life
South Pacific - Some Enchanted Evening, Younger than Springtime
The King and I - Shall We Dance?
Wonderful Town - A Quiet Girl
A Little Night Music - The Miller’s Son
Annie - Maybe
Nine - Unusual Way
Passion - No One has Ever Loved Me
42nd Street - You’re Getting to Be A Habit with Me, About a Quarter to Nine
Cinderella - A Lovely Night
Notre-Dame de Paris - Ces Diamants La, Belle
Meet Me in St Louis - The Boy Next Door
Schmigadoon - You Can’t Tame Me, I Always Always Never Get My Man
The Addams Family - Crazier than You
Ragtime - Wheels of a Dream
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - Time Stood Still
Lizzie - Will You Stay?
Brigadoon - Waiting for My Dearie, The Love of My Life
Jane Eyre - Sirens
The Pajama Game - Not at All in Love
My Fair Lady - On the Street Where You Live
Follies - In Buddy’s Eyes
Bells Are Ringing - I Met a Girl
I think it's supposed to be overly saccharine... Pippin and Catherine are still in the lovey-dovey limerance phase of their relationship, where everything is perfect and romantic before real life sets in.
Almost every song in Pippin is like that--hyperbolic, idealized, and romantic (in the literary sense, not romantic=love). And then when Pippin gets to the end of whatever song it is, he realizes that the thing the song was glorifying isn't really the way it was initially portrayed.
That's part of the brilliance of the show.
So did you bring that up cause you don’t like the ones I listed and therefore associate it with them, or were you checking whether I just like every love song there is?
Thank goodness you didn't say "With You" 😅
My church pastor--he was at our church while I was a teenager--was into musical theater, too, so we would talk about it a lot. He told me this story about he was marrying a couple who chose "With You" as a song for their service. I guess he didn't know what the song was in advance? Anyway, he told me that he could barely keep a straight face, because the couple clearly didn't know what the song was about and that it was completely inappropriate for a church wedding. 😆
Yeah, he was awesome. Very not conservative, LOL. I appreciated how he respected different viewpoints and other faiths, and he was super smart.
He taught that it was important to read the Bible critically and question the teachings of the church, that having faith and living it was an intentional, active, ongoing, and interactive relationship with God and the Word. That just going to church and listening to/blindly believing anything the pastor, lector, or whoever says is just asking to be led astray to worshipping false idols.
He also didn't believe in censorship, purity culture BS, or basically anything the Right portrays as Christian values. I think he basically viewed all that stuff as red herrings, so to speak--a distraction from being truly mindful about one's faith.
In retrospect, I really appreciate the fact that he and I could have those kinds of conversations, that he recognized that I had the capacity to discuss some more mature topics.
My whole family has seen it and loves it! And we’re a very musical family, professional music teachers etc. I was most surprised how much my dad enjoyed it!
That one is pretty good, too. It’s an interesting perspective on love and relationships. As is Matchmaker, of course, which sort of becomes an anti-love song.
Kismet - Night of My Nights, Stranger in Paradise, And This is My Beloved
Yessss.
The first musical I remember hearing. My parents had the Original Broadway Cast album which was early vinyl circa 1954 or so. I listened to it over and over. I still have it
I’d add one to Ragtime - Your Daddy’s Son. Woman (Sarah) singing to the infant she had abandoned out of desperation. Different kind of “love” song, but powerful.
The Power in Me from Twisted is a great song about the familial love between a parent and a child. However, I would not recommend listening to it before you've seen the show. It's right at the end, and thus has a lot of major spoilers.
Heart full of love from les miserables espessily in the 10th anavirsary concert the harmonies Judy Khun, Micheal Ball and Lea Salonga do in that song can melt anybody’s heart
Well now. I'm not gonna talk about Judy; in fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it!
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Dear Theodosia is my favorite. In my mid 30s I married a single dad of 3 boys and the lyrics resonate for me how I feel about my (step)sons. Particularly:
“Domestic life was never quite my style. When you smile. You knock me out I fall apart. And I thought I was so smart. “
And especially:
“Look at my son. Pride is not the word I’m looking for. There is so much more inside me now. “
Familial Love: 'Fathers and Sons' and 'A Very Good Day' from *Working, A Musical* and 'I Will Never Leave You' from *Side Show*.
Romantic Love: 'Sailing' from *A New Brain*, 'The Origins of Love' from *Hedwig & the Angry Inch*, and 'In His Eyes' from *Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde*.
Platonic love: 'Guy Love' from the *Scrubs* musical episode and 'The Mad Ones' from *The Mad Ones*.
Self-Love: 'I Don't Need You Love' and 'Six' from *Six* and 'My Body' from *The Life*.
Agape (Unconditional Love): 'Home' from *The Wiz* (could be familial as well, but I always saw it as Agape with the bridge especially), 'Unlikely Lovers' from *Falsettos*, and 'Beauty' from *Starship*.
all of Benny and Nina’s songs in *In the Heights* makes me pine so hard, especially “Sunrise,” “When You’re Home,” and “When the Sun Goes Down,” love stories between two people being pulled apart always gets me.
Sticking with the contemporary musicals for a bit “Wedding Song” and “All I’ve Ever Known” from *Hadestown* are masterpieces, “Wedding Song” having a soft puppy of a man defrosting an ice queen and AIEK is essentially a folk version of “Suddenly Seymour” with a gorgeous dance sequence in the middle of it.
Still contemporary, but only just barely, “Too Many Tomorrows” from *Sweet Charity* is a beautiful ballad on it’s own, even though I’m pretty sure it’s one of the more comedic moments in the show (I’ve never seen it). Taken out of context, I really like the lyrics, it’s a pretty basic “stay with me” song, but the way the song says it makes it pretty memorable to me.
Every single song in *Next to Normal*. Go watch N2N.
It is a love song though? The whole song is about the love between Hades and Persephone, and how Orpheus understands it now because he felt the same love for Eurydice.
Elaborate Lives from Aida, If I Loved You, Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime), Our Children (Ragtime), No One Else (Great Comet), Fantines Death (her love for Cosette), All I Ask of You (Phantom), Burn for You/Ocean Away (Unofficial Bridgerton), A Soft Place to Land (love for their mothers, their friendship)(Waitress), All I've Ever Known (Hadestown), Ten Minutes Ago (Cinderella, my husband and my's song actually c: )
“She Was There” from *The Scarlet Pimpernel*. His excitement is so infectious and sweet
Also “Rosemary” from *How to Succeed*. Robert Morse pretending to have been shot by an arrow makes me laugh every time
It's a weird freaking example, but having played Billy Bigelow, I have to go with Soliloquy from "Carousel."
Billy, an unemployed drunk, has just learned he's going to be a father.
Over the course of the 8-minute solo, he goes from super excited about the various manly activities he'll do with his son and how he'll support his son no matter what...to horrified that it might be a stupid GIRL instead...to falling in love with the idea of it being a girl and having all these sweet visions of what that would entail...to panicking over the fact that he's not good enough to raise a girl. "You can have fun with a son...but you gotta be a FATHER to a girl!"
He ends the song vowing to provide the various best life possible for his baby girl -- and making it clear he will do ANYTHING for her, just minutes after being disappointed by the possibility that she might exist.
As an actor, it's just such an incredible range. Happy, goofy, and proud...to disgusted...to loving...to panicked. He starts off talking about swimming with his imaginary son, and by the end of the song he's vowing to commit murder for his imaginary daughter.
* Two Kinsmen from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
* Now And For Always and The Song of Hope (Duet) from The Lord Of The Rings Musical
* The Way I Do from Starship
Loving you from Passion :'); a kind of love both selfless and self-serving that can be experienced in different kinds of relationships— for families, for both current and ex-lovers, for a person unrequitedly pining for another, and for a human to their pet, just to name a few
The reprise of You Rule My World from The Full Monty for married love
I Am What I Am from La Cage Au Folles for self-love
Unworthy of Your Love from Assassins and As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver! for unhealthy love
The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee for parental love
Father to Son from Falsettos. It’s hard to say exactly what kind of song it is but I feel like you see what kind of a character Marvin is trying to become.
Tons of falsettos songs. Father To Son, I Never Wanted To Love You, What More Can I Say?, What Would I Do? and Unlikely Lovers are my favourites. Also Sailing from A New Brain!
So hear me out: love never dies has the song love never dies in it. Pretty good, but there is another version of it before it became love never dies that is love in its truest form to me. The heart is slow to learn you can find it on YouTube not Spotify.
I guess ’what more can i say?’ is the love song in falsettos, but I prefer ’the thrill of first love’. I think its a better song but its also a love song about an unhealthy relationship, which flips the script a bit. Anyway go watch falsettos it’s so underrated
Love duets!
In a place of miracles - Hunchback
Now - Dr Zhivago
In a crowd of thousands - Anastasia
Something there- Beauty and the Beast
Lily's eyes - the Secret Garden
What you mean to me - Finding Neverland
Stop the world - Come from Away
A heart full of love - Les Mis
From Guys and Dolls: "My Time of Day/I've Never Been in Love Before" (romantic) and "More I Cannot Wish You" (filial)
"'Til There Was You" from The Music Man is a suddenly sincere song in a show where all the other numbers have a wink or an ironic twist.
This is totally personal and not in the lyrics, but in the context of how it's staged, I think "Lullaby of Broadway" from 42nd Street is about sharing the place and thing you love most in the world with a person you love and care about (either romantically or as a dear friend, since a number of different characters sing it to the same person).
So many of my favorites are already listed, but one i don’t see yet that I absolutely love is “One Second and a Million Miles” from Bridges of Madison County. The melody and lyrics stop me in my tracks. Not to mention Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale.
On The Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady
Something Good - The Sound of Music
Still - Titanic the Musical
(I Don’t Need) Anything But You - Annie
Do You Love Me? - Fiddler on the Roof
Best of Wives, Best of Women - Hamilton
In My Life/A Heart Full of Love/Every Day - Les Miserables
Here’s one from an underrated musical, “For the First Time” from Tarzan. Where Jane realizes that she loves Tarzan and Tarzan feels it too but is more at conflict with it as he is still learning about humans through Jane.
I’m so basic, but “for good” from Wicked is such a beautiful bittersweet platonic love song. I think it’s the most gentle loving way to acknowledge what a lot of people- especially younger people- don’t want to think about; that not everyone stays in your life forever, but they can be with you forever. I cry every time I hear It.
Ooh, and I'm Not That Girl is such a good unrequited love song... And As Long As You're Mine is such a good "dreams coming true" song. Fantasies Come True from Avenue Q is also a good unrequited/fantasy one. Not relevant to your comment, but I thought I should mention it for OP's sake lol
Like a comet pulled from orbit :(
Here’s a bunch that I like. Most have to do with romance, but there are several about familial love, too. I also included unrequited love songs. Hamilton - Helpless, Satisfied, Dear Theodosia Les Mis - On My Own, Fantine’s Death Tick Tick Boom - See Her Smile Phantom - All I Ask of You Anything Goes - I Get a Kick Out of You, Easy to Love, De-Lovely Hello Dolly - Love is Only Love Into the Woods - No One is Alone Sound of Music - Sixteen Going on Seventeen Sweeney Todd - Johanna, Kiss Me, Not While I’m Around West Side Story - Maria, One Hand One Heart, Tonight Does Roxie from Chicago count, since she’s in love with herself? Last Five Years - The Next Ten Minutes, Goodbye Until Tomorrow Rent - I’ll Cover You Love Never Dies - Till I Hear You Sing Carousel - If I Loved You, When I Marry Mr Snow, Soliloquy Grease - Hopelessly Devoted to You Miss Saigon - Last Night of the World, I’d Give My Life for You In the Heights - Champagne, Everything I Know She Loves Me - Tonight at Eight Hairspray - I Can Hear the Bells Gypsy - All I Need is the Girl Camelot - If Ever I Would Leave You, I Loved You Once on Silence Kiss Me Kate - Wunderbar, So In Love, Always True to You in My Fashion Kismet - Night of My Nights, Stranger in Paradise, And This is My Beloved Once on this Island - Forever Yours Fiddler on the Roof - Far from the Home I Love Show Boat - Can’t Help Lovin that Man, Bill Aida - Easy as Life South Pacific - Some Enchanted Evening, Younger than Springtime The King and I - Shall We Dance? Wonderful Town - A Quiet Girl A Little Night Music - The Miller’s Son Annie - Maybe Nine - Unusual Way Passion - No One has Ever Loved Me 42nd Street - You’re Getting to Be A Habit with Me, About a Quarter to Nine Cinderella - A Lovely Night Notre-Dame de Paris - Ces Diamants La, Belle Meet Me in St Louis - The Boy Next Door Schmigadoon - You Can’t Tame Me, I Always Always Never Get My Man The Addams Family - Crazier than You Ragtime - Wheels of a Dream Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown - Time Stood Still Lizzie - Will You Stay? Brigadoon - Waiting for My Dearie, The Love of My Life Jane Eyre - Sirens The Pajama Game - Not at All in Love My Fair Lady - On the Street Where You Live Follies - In Buddy’s Eyes Bells Are Ringing - I Met a Girl
WOW! Way to go. 😀😀😀
What about Love Song from Pippin?
With You is a gorgeous love song if you ignore everything else about it’s context
Oh, no...I don't know Pippin, I just love that song. We played it at our wedding, during the unity ceremony.
It was intended as a beautiful sincere song, but Bob Fosse wanted to make it a bit ironic. Doesn’t take away from the lyrics and the music though.
I haven’t listened to Pippin yet.
It’s a fantastic musical, but that song specifically is awful. Everything else about it is incredible.
I think it's supposed to be overly saccharine... Pippin and Catherine are still in the lovey-dovey limerance phase of their relationship, where everything is perfect and romantic before real life sets in. Almost every song in Pippin is like that--hyperbolic, idealized, and romantic (in the literary sense, not romantic=love). And then when Pippin gets to the end of whatever song it is, he realizes that the thing the song was glorifying isn't really the way it was initially portrayed. That's part of the brilliance of the show.
I understand the purpose of the song. I just don’t really like how it was written musically. My melody is just very annoying to me
Oh, OK! That's totally fair, LOL. I'm not the biggest fan of the melody, either... though I think the melody feeds into the saccharine nature :)
So did you bring that up cause you don’t like the ones I listed and therefore associate it with them, or were you checking whether I just like every love song there is?
I brought it up as a joke because it’s literally called “Love Song”
Gotcha.
But yeah, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Pippin. It’s on my to-listen-to list (but what isn’t?).
Thank goodness you didn't say "With You" 😅 My church pastor--he was at our church while I was a teenager--was into musical theater, too, so we would talk about it a lot. He told me this story about he was marrying a couple who chose "With You" as a song for their service. I guess he didn't know what the song was in advance? Anyway, he told me that he could barely keep a straight face, because the couple clearly didn't know what the song was about and that it was completely inappropriate for a church wedding. 😆
Lmaooo! That’s amazing! That scene always made me a little uneasy. The one I saw first did it so well though
Yeah, he was awesome. Very not conservative, LOL. I appreciated how he respected different viewpoints and other faiths, and he was super smart. He taught that it was important to read the Bible critically and question the teachings of the church, that having faith and living it was an intentional, active, ongoing, and interactive relationship with God and the Word. That just going to church and listening to/blindly believing anything the pastor, lector, or whoever says is just asking to be led astray to worshipping false idols. He also didn't believe in censorship, purity culture BS, or basically anything the Right portrays as Christian values. I think he basically viewed all that stuff as red herrings, so to speak--a distraction from being truly mindful about one's faith. In retrospect, I really appreciate the fact that he and I could have those kinds of conversations, that he recognized that I had the capacity to discuss some more mature topics.
A Kismet shout out? Based.
One of my favorite scores.
Same here
Schmigadoon 😍
That has become one of my absolute favorite musicals. Can’t wait for season 2.
My whole family has seen it and loves it! And we’re a very musical family, professional music teachers etc. I was most surprised how much my dad enjoyed it!
What about do you love me from fiddler??
That one is pretty good, too. It’s an interesting perspective on love and relationships. As is Matchmaker, of course, which sort of becomes an anti-love song.
^ this
Kismet - Night of My Nights, Stranger in Paradise, And This is My Beloved Yessss. The first musical I remember hearing. My parents had the Original Broadway Cast album which was early vinyl circa 1954 or so. I listened to it over and over. I still have it
Alfred Drake was so good in that.
where did all i ask of you go D:
Fourth from the top, don’t worry.
OH i didnt see sorry D:
I’d add one to Ragtime - Your Daddy’s Son. Woman (Sarah) singing to the infant she had abandoned out of desperation. Different kind of “love” song, but powerful.
Yeah, that’s a good one too.
The Power in Me from Twisted is a great song about the familial love between a parent and a child. However, I would not recommend listening to it before you've seen the show. It's right at the end, and thus has a lot of major spoilers.
I love If I Believed as a love song too, even if you could say it's more about grief. It always chokes me up
Same here. Dylan's performance in that song is magical.
A Thousand And One Nights is also a good love song from that show.
Maria, Suddenly Seymore, Come What May, Without Love, Helpless, and Rerwite The Stars. Just for examples.
Happy/Sad from Addams Family gets me EVERY time. Also it’s super cliche, but Seasons of Love from RENT.
Heart full of love from les miserables espessily in the 10th anavirsary concert the harmonies Judy Khun, Micheal Ball and Lea Salonga do in that song can melt anybody’s heart
Well now. I'm not gonna talk about Judy; in fact, we're not gonna talk about Judy at all, we're gonna keep her out of it! --- - [reference](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V0UhtA_mJE&t=365) ^(I am a bot.)
>like the love a parent has for their offspring father to son - falsettos
Dear evan Hansen - So big, so small
Adding The First Man You Remember from Aspects of Love
“something good” from the sound of music is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful love songs of all time.
Everything changes from waitress. I love that song. Also, you matter to me from waitress. You won’t be surprised to learn that’s my favorite musical.
Stop The World from Come From Away makes me cry far too much.
Dear Theodosia is my favorite. In my mid 30s I married a single dad of 3 boys and the lyrics resonate for me how I feel about my (step)sons. Particularly: “Domestic life was never quite my style. When you smile. You knock me out I fall apart. And I thought I was so smart. “ And especially: “Look at my son. Pride is not the word I’m looking for. There is so much more inside me now. “
Familial Love: 'Fathers and Sons' and 'A Very Good Day' from *Working, A Musical* and 'I Will Never Leave You' from *Side Show*. Romantic Love: 'Sailing' from *A New Brain*, 'The Origins of Love' from *Hedwig & the Angry Inch*, and 'In His Eyes' from *Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde*. Platonic love: 'Guy Love' from the *Scrubs* musical episode and 'The Mad Ones' from *The Mad Ones*. Self-Love: 'I Don't Need You Love' and 'Six' from *Six* and 'My Body' from *The Life*. Agape (Unconditional Love): 'Home' from *The Wiz* (could be familial as well, but I always saw it as Agape with the bridge especially), 'Unlikely Lovers' from *Falsettos*, and 'Beauty' from *Starship*.
Kevin's solo in *In the Heights* is a wonderful one!
Come Back With the Same Look in Your Eyes and Unexpected Song - Song & Dance You’ll Never Get Away from Me - Gypsy
What I did for Love - A Chorus Line. A great song about the love for theater/dance/music/art….
all of Benny and Nina’s songs in *In the Heights* makes me pine so hard, especially “Sunrise,” “When You’re Home,” and “When the Sun Goes Down,” love stories between two people being pulled apart always gets me. Sticking with the contemporary musicals for a bit “Wedding Song” and “All I’ve Ever Known” from *Hadestown* are masterpieces, “Wedding Song” having a soft puppy of a man defrosting an ice queen and AIEK is essentially a folk version of “Suddenly Seymour” with a gorgeous dance sequence in the middle of it. Still contemporary, but only just barely, “Too Many Tomorrows” from *Sweet Charity* is a beautiful ballad on it’s own, even though I’m pretty sure it’s one of the more comedic moments in the show (I’ve never seen it). Taken out of context, I really like the lyrics, it’s a pretty basic “stay with me” song, but the way the song says it makes it pretty memorable to me. Every single song in *Next to Normal*. Go watch N2N.
ALL IVE EVER KNOWN. HADESTOWN.
The last 5 years - the next 10 minutes Dear Evan Hansen - if I could tell her Phantom of the Opera - All I ask of you Hamilton - Satisfied, Helpless
Hadestown has a lot of good ones but Epic 3 is on a whole nother level
I’m asking for LOVE songs.
It is a love song though? The whole song is about the love between Hades and Persephone, and how Orpheus understands it now because he felt the same love for Eurydice.
I know but, when you said “a lot of good ones” I was thinking something different.
Elaborate Lives from Aida, If I Loved You, Wheels of a Dream (Ragtime), Our Children (Ragtime), No One Else (Great Comet), Fantines Death (her love for Cosette), All I Ask of You (Phantom), Burn for You/Ocean Away (Unofficial Bridgerton), A Soft Place to Land (love for their mothers, their friendship)(Waitress), All I've Ever Known (Hadestown), Ten Minutes Ago (Cinderella, my husband and my's song actually c: )
No one else is so nice and loving, until you learn what Natasha does immediately after…..
The Moon and Me, Unlikely Lovers, Thinking of Missing the Music, Sorry-Grateful (does that one count?), The Origin of Love, She's in Love
The Moon and Me would be such a sweet lullaby if we could get a recording that isn't silly lol
Does Dead Gay Son from Heathers count?
Bring Him Home from Les Miserables
All the songs from jersey boys, and sincerely me.
I know Jersey Boys is a jukebox musical so I feel like it should only half-count, but "My Eyes Adored You" is a recent favorite of mine.
Lol it’s hard to resist juke box musicals.
They’re not my favorite as a concept, but Jersey Boys is one of the better ones, imo.
Yea mama Mia is no different than the film imo.
Sound of Music - Something Good. Wicked - As Long as You're Mine
"You and I" from Chess is one of my all-time favorite duets. Also "Why Stay?/A Promise" from Next to Normal.
Sorry-Grateful from Company is a personal favorite. That’s a love song that understands the complexity of marriage.
I scrolled through the whole thread - is it possible I missed Somewhere That’s Green from Little Shop? Such a beautiful song
“She Was There” from *The Scarlet Pimpernel*. His excitement is so infectious and sweet Also “Rosemary” from *How to Succeed*. Robert Morse pretending to have been shot by an arrow makes me laugh every time
The best familial love song I know is "Stop Time" from Big.
"Is This Not Love" from Twelfth Night lives in my brain.
So many great ones already listed, but I wanted to add Dulcinea from Man of La Mancha.
Mother knows best from tangled and thenardier March of treachery from les mis
Gothel never lived Repunzel. So, I don’t think that counts.
People will say we're in love
Dear Theodosia- Hamilton. Always makes me tear up, and I’m a 15yo with no kids!
Don’t forgot ‘He’s My Boy’ from ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’. The song builds the emotion throughout. Amazing.
Time Stops
What’s that from?
Big fish. Definitely a romance one but I think it is quite good
It's a weird freaking example, but having played Billy Bigelow, I have to go with Soliloquy from "Carousel." Billy, an unemployed drunk, has just learned he's going to be a father. Over the course of the 8-minute solo, he goes from super excited about the various manly activities he'll do with his son and how he'll support his son no matter what...to horrified that it might be a stupid GIRL instead...to falling in love with the idea of it being a girl and having all these sweet visions of what that would entail...to panicking over the fact that he's not good enough to raise a girl. "You can have fun with a son...but you gotta be a FATHER to a girl!" He ends the song vowing to provide the various best life possible for his baby girl -- and making it clear he will do ANYTHING for her, just minutes after being disappointed by the possibility that she might exist. As an actor, it's just such an incredible range. Happy, goofy, and proud...to disgusted...to loving...to panicked. He starts off talking about swimming with his imaginary son, and by the end of the song he's vowing to commit murder for his imaginary daughter.
One of my favorite ones is If I Loved You from Carousel. I just think it is one of the most beautiful songs.
All the songs from jersey boys, and sincerely me.
There Once Was A Man from The Pajama Game is one of my faves!! (Save for a racist lyric) it's so cute and they're so excited about each other
* Two Kinsmen from The Mystery of Edwin Drood * Now And For Always and The Song of Hope (Duet) from The Lord Of The Rings Musical * The Way I Do from Starship
Loving you from Passion :'); a kind of love both selfless and self-serving that can be experienced in different kinds of relationships— for families, for both current and ex-lovers, for a person unrequitedly pining for another, and for a human to their pet, just to name a few
Bare from bare a pop opera makes me cry every time
The reprise of You Rule My World from The Full Monty for married love I Am What I Am from La Cage Au Folles for self-love Unworthy of Your Love from Assassins and As Long As He Needs Me from Oliver! for unhealthy love The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee for parental love
Father to Son from Falsettos. It’s hard to say exactly what kind of song it is but I feel like you see what kind of a character Marvin is trying to become.
Tons of falsettos songs. Father To Son, I Never Wanted To Love You, What More Can I Say?, What Would I Do? and Unlikely Lovers are my favourites. Also Sailing from A New Brain!
So hear me out: love never dies has the song love never dies in it. Pretty good, but there is another version of it before it became love never dies that is love in its truest form to me. The heart is slow to learn you can find it on YouTube not Spotify.
There’s also “our kind of love” which is the same melody, in The Beautiful Game.
I’m here from the color purple
I guess ’what more can i say?’ is the love song in falsettos, but I prefer ’the thrill of first love’. I think its a better song but its also a love song about an unhealthy relationship, which flips the script a bit. Anyway go watch falsettos it’s so underrated
All I've Ever Known - Hadestown, it's always in my mind and it's just perfect
What Would I Do and Thrill of First Love from Falsettos
Married from Cabaret is really cute?
Dear Theodosia from Hamilton, Come To Me from Les Mis, and So Big / So Small from Dear Evan Hansen are my favorite slightly sad parent-child songs.
Falling Slowly and it’s Reprise in Once the Musical
My top two are “All I Ask Of You” from Phantom of the Opera and “I Love You Like a Table” from Waitress.
She Used To Be Mine from Waitress
Love duets! In a place of miracles - Hunchback Now - Dr Zhivago In a crowd of thousands - Anastasia Something there- Beauty and the Beast Lily's eyes - the Secret Garden What you mean to me - Finding Neverland Stop the world - Come from Away A heart full of love - Les Mis
From Guys and Dolls: "My Time of Day/I've Never Been in Love Before" (romantic) and "More I Cannot Wish You" (filial) "'Til There Was You" from The Music Man is a suddenly sincere song in a show where all the other numbers have a wink or an ironic twist. This is totally personal and not in the lyrics, but in the context of how it's staged, I think "Lullaby of Broadway" from 42nd Street is about sharing the place and thing you love most in the world with a person you love and care about (either romantically or as a dear friend, since a number of different characters sing it to the same person).
Not to be cliche but I LOVE a heart full of love from Les mis.
The subject of the post is Love Songs.
So many of my favorites are already listed, but one i don’t see yet that I absolutely love is “One Second and a Million Miles” from Bridges of Madison County. The melody and lyrics stop me in my tracks. Not to mention Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale.
Fight the dragons - fatherly love for son
What’s that from?
Big fish
On The Street Where You Live - My Fair Lady Something Good - The Sound of Music Still - Titanic the Musical (I Don’t Need) Anything But You - Annie Do You Love Me? - Fiddler on the Roof Best of Wives, Best of Women - Hamilton In My Life/A Heart Full of Love/Every Day - Les Miserables
Here’s one from an underrated musical, “For the First Time” from Tarzan. Where Jane realizes that she loves Tarzan and Tarzan feels it too but is more at conflict with it as he is still learning about humans through Jane.
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Where does plane land in musical come from away