Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in history, has died. He was 95.
Jones died Friday (Aug. 11) at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, according to Dan Shaheen, a co-producer of The Fantasticks, who worked with Jones since the 1980s. The cause was cancer.
Jones, who teamed up with composer Harvey Schmidt on The Fantasticks and the Broadway shows 110 in the Shade and I Do! I Do!, was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1998.
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