Happy Valentine's Day to all you Broadway lovers out there! To celebrate the day, we're falling head over heals for the romantic sounds from our season of shows. From HADESTOWN to ALADDIN, there's a lot ot love at Playhouse Square this Broadway season...what's your favorite?
Your Song
Show: Moulin Rouge
Series: KeyBank Broadway Series
Dates: June 7 - July 2
A classic hit of Elton’s from the '70s, reimagined in Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie musical, now "Your Song" belongs to Broadway! With the effortlessly talented Aaron Tveit serenading us on the original cast album, "Your Song" from Moulin Rouge! The Musical is on repeat for us this Valentine’s Day.
Fav Lyric: I don't have much money but boy if I did, I’d buy a big house where we both could live
Me And The Sky
Show: Come From Away
Series: Huntington Bank Featured Performance
Dates: July 25 - 30
So it’s not the traditional ‘love’ we’re singing about here, but love nonetheless. It’s a moment in the show where the character Beverly sings of her love for flying and how she became a pilot. Give it a listen, "Me and The Sky" from COME FROM AWAY is so full of passion, affection, excitement, pure L O V E.
Fav Lyric: Suddenly there’s nothing in between me and the sky
For Forever
Show: Dear Evan Hansen
Series: Huntington Bank Featured Performance
Dates: May 16 - 21
Celebrating the love we find in true friendship, "For Forever" from DEAR EVAN HANSEN paints the picture of “two friends on a perfect day.” With a soaring melody and wonderfully descriptive lyrics, "For Forever" transports us to the perfect day at the end of May with our own best friend.
Fav Lyric: All we see is sky for forever
I Could Have Danced All Night
Show: My Fair Lady
Series: Broadway in Akron
Dates: March 14 - 15
A musical theater classic, MY FAIR LADY boasts beautiful costumes, beautiful scenery, and most importantly beautiful songs. With a timeless score by Frederick Lowe, "I Could Have Danced All Night" is a a quintessential Broadway love song, full of the giddy excitement and joy that new love brings.
Fav Lyric: I'll never know what made it so exciting, why all at once my heart took flight
A Whole New World
Show: Aladdin
Series: Huntington Bank Featured Performance
Dates: March 8 - 12
We fell in love with this musical masterpiece from Menken back in the '90s and 30 years on, we’re still singing this tune from this cartoon movie megahit. Now a bona fide Broadway blockbuster, ALADDIN delivers magical lamps, Genies, carpet rides, Arabian nights and love!
Fav Lyric: Tell me princess now when did you last let your heart decide?
(Simply) The Best
Show: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical
Series: KeyBank Broadway Series
Dates: Apr 25 - May 14
The title of this track says it all - SIMPLY THE BEST! Turner’s iconic anthem is a pop classic, beloved by generation after generation. And now with TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL taking Broadway by storm, theatergoers have found a showtune in "Simply The Best" to fall in love with all over again!
Fav Lyric: I’m stuck on your heart, I hang on every word you say
Heart of Stone
Show: SIX
Series: KeyBank Broadway Series
Dates: Aug 8 - Sep 10
If you haven’t listened to SIX yet, where have you been? The smash-hit UK import has been blowing up Broadway box offices since 2021. And we are beyond excited to welcome it to Cleveland this summer. The soundtrack is an uptempo pop mix of megahit after megahit, with the cherry on the cake in the form of the emotional ballad from character Jane Seymour - "Heart of Stone."
Fav Lyric: You've got a good heart but I know it changes, a restless tide, untameable
I Don’t Know How To Love Him
Show: Jesus Christ Superstar
Series: Broadway in Akron
Dates: Apr 10 - 11
A classic from Lloyd Webber’s extensive catalogue of work, this number from Mary Magdalene speaks to all us ‘lover’s fool’s. Seemingly simple in its melody, it has always felt so epic to us, a true love song or should we say unrequited love song, that stands the test of time.
Fav Lyric: Yet if he said he loved me, I’d be lost, I’d be frightened
All I’ve Ever Known
Show: Hadestown
Series: KeyBank Broadway Series
Dates: Now - Feb 19
Last but not least on our love song selection, is the soft and soothing sound of "All I’ve Ever Known", from HADESTOWN. So sweet, so sincere, and oh so catchy. A beautiful duet between the lovesick leading characters, Orpheus and Eurydice. If you haven’t seen this show or at least listened to the soundtrack, this is your final warning folks - go listen, and fall in love!
Fav Lyric: I don’t how or why, or who am I that I should get to hold you
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