Tom Jones, creator of longest-running musical The Fantasticks, dies at 95

Lore Noto, original producer of the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks, is flanked by the play’s authors Tom Jones, left, and Harvey Schmidt (Tina Fineberg/AP)

Tom Jones, the lyricist, director and writer of The Fantasticks, the longest-running musical in history, has died of cancer at the age of 95.

Jones died at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, on Friday, according to Dan Shaheen, a co-producer of The Fantasticks, who had worked with him since the 1980s.