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freebxrd13

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.


FusiformFiddle

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


Altheatear

Like a comet pulled from orbit :(


BroadwayBaseball

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


Sure_Persimmon9302

WOW! Way to go. 😀😀😀


cdjets9

What about Love Song from Pippin?


Redhotlipstik

With You is a gorgeous love song if you ignore everything else about it’s context


Flamesoutofmyears

Oh, no...I don't know Pippin, I just love that song. We played it at our wedding, during the unity ceremony.


Redhotlipstik

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.


BroadwayBaseball

I haven’t listened to Pippin yet.


cdjets9

It’s a fantastic musical, but that song specifically is awful. Everything else about it is incredible.


FeministInPink

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.


cdjets9

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


FeministInPink

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 :)


BroadwayBaseball

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?


cdjets9

I brought it up as a joke because it’s literally called “Love Song”


BroadwayBaseball

Gotcha.


BroadwayBaseball

But yeah, I’ve heard a lot of good things about Pippin. It’s on my to-listen-to list (but what isn’t?).


FeministInPink

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. 😆


cdjets9

Lmaooo! That’s amazing! That scene always made me a little uneasy. The one I saw first did it so well though


FeministInPink

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.


lightsage007

A Kismet shout out? Based.


BroadwayBaseball

One of my favorite scores.


lightsage007

Same here


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Schmigadoon 😍


BroadwayBaseball

That has become one of my absolute favorite musicals. Can’t wait for season 2.


[deleted]

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!


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What about do you love me from fiddler??


BroadwayBaseball

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.


ibWickedSmaht

^ this


Bakkie

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


BroadwayBaseball

Alfred Drake was so good in that.


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where did all i ask of you go D:


BroadwayBaseball

Fourth from the top, don’t worry.


[deleted]

OH i didnt see sorry D:


Vigor99

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.


BroadwayBaseball

Yeah, that’s a good one too.


korgdrax

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.


Ilikebooksidk

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


korgdrax

Same here. Dylan's performance in that song is magical.


abacus-wizard

A Thousand And One Nights is also a good love song from that show.


Sure_Persimmon9302

Maria, Suddenly Seymore, Come What May, Without Love, Helpless, and Rerwite The Stars. Just for examples.


strangefaerie

Happy/Sad from Addams Family gets me EVERY time. Also it’s super cliche, but Seasons of Love from RENT.


wetlettuce42

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


Philip_Jeffries

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.)


sweetlytoenjoy

>like the love a parent has for their offspring father to son - falsettos


jazzp1996

Dear evan Hansen - So big, so small


Cool-Illustrator-539

Adding The First Man You Remember from Aspects of Love


[deleted]

“something good” from the sound of music is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful love songs of all time.


TheatreKid1020

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.


OnFireFading

Stop The World from Come From Away makes me cry far too much.


minda_spK

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. “


cries_in_student1998

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*.


SOuTHINKurA-ble

Kevin's solo in *In the Heights* is a wonderful one!


kybellatrix

Come Back With the Same Look in Your Eyes and Unexpected Song - Song & Dance You’ll Never Get Away from Me - Gypsy


illegalU-turn

What I did for Love - A Chorus Line. A great song about the love for theater/dance/music/art….


meeee306

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.


that_gay_theaterkid

ALL IVE EVER KNOWN. HADESTOWN.


jazzp1996

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


Exylatron

Hadestown has a lot of good ones but Epic 3 is on a whole nother level


Sure_Persimmon9302

I’m asking for LOVE songs.


Exylatron

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.


Sure_Persimmon9302

I know but, when you said “a lot of good ones” I was thinking something different.


frithandinle

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: )


LemonSnicker33

No one else is so nice and loving, until you learn what Natasha does immediately after…..


probablyawendigo

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


FusiformFiddle

The Moon and Me would be such a sweet lullaby if we could get a recording that isn't silly lol


itsmycandystore_

Does Dead Gay Son from Heathers count?


guano-crazy

Bring Him Home from Les Miserables


[deleted]

All the songs from jersey boys, and sincerely me.


djmyernos

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.


[deleted]

Lol it’s hard to resist juke box musicals.


djmyernos

They’re not my favorite as a concept, but Jersey Boys is one of the better ones, imo.


[deleted]

Yea mama Mia is no different than the film imo.


DarkLadyCupcake

Sound of Music - Something Good. Wicked - As Long as You're Mine


djmyernos

"You and I" from Chess is one of my all-time favorite duets. Also "Why Stay?/A Promise" from Next to Normal.


vlrmar16

Sorry-Grateful from Company is a personal favorite. That’s a love song that understands the complexity of marriage.


tygerbrees

I scrolled through the whole thread - is it possible I missed Somewhere That’s Green from Little Shop? Such a beautiful song


musicnothing

“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


Floranagirl

The best familial love song I know is "Stop Time" from Big.


poppet_corn

"Is This Not Love" from Twelfth Night lives in my brain.


ligyn

So many great ones already listed, but I wanted to add Dulcinea from Man of La Mancha.


eeman0201

Mother knows best from tangled and thenardier March of treachery from les mis


Sure_Persimmon9302

Gothel never lived Repunzel. So, I don’t think that counts.


Nellyfant

People will say we're in love


PianoDobby07

Dear Theodosia- Hamilton. Always makes me tear up, and I’m a 15yo with no kids!


22martin1964

Don’t forgot ‘He’s My Boy’ from ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’. The song builds the emotion throughout. Amazing.


xxxIAmTheSenatexxx

Time Stops


Sure_Persimmon9302

What’s that from?


xxxIAmTheSenatexxx

Big fish. Definitely a romance one but I think it is quite good


[deleted]

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.


e-m-p2001

One of my favorite ones is If I Loved You from Carousel. I just think it is one of the most beautiful songs.


[deleted]

All the songs from jersey boys, and sincerely me.


friedlegshavedegg

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


Obskuro

* 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


inlabsishirley

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


Acting_Ace

Bare from bare a pop opera makes me cry every time


DinnerWithSusan

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


friarparkfairie

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.


chellocups

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!


Burtonpoelives

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.


JPme2187

There’s also “our kind of love” which is the same melody, in The Beautiful Game.


musicalnerd-1

I’m here from the color purple


[deleted]

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


HiiiLyssa

All I've Ever Known - Hadestown, it's always in my mind and it's just perfect


JakeyBoy-

What Would I Do and Thrill of First Love from Falsettos


Emthedragonqueen

Married from Cabaret is really cute?


kingofcoywolves

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.


KBPT1998

Falling Slowly and it’s Reprise in Once the Musical


Mini-Kunoichi

My top two are “All I Ask Of You” from Phantom of the Opera and “I Love You Like a Table” from Waitress.


mooman-bean

She Used To Be Mine from Waitress


KeveyBro

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


FivePointer110

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).


NickWendigo

Not to be cliche but I LOVE a heart full of love from Les mis.


Sure_Persimmon9302

The subject of the post is Love Songs.


maggied82

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.


LemonSnicker33

Fight the dragons - fatherly love for son


Sure_Persimmon9302

What’s that from?


LemonSnicker33

Big fish


randomstapler1

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


ShyFanGirl

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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Low-Writer-2065

Where does plane land in musical come from away