Tom Jones, Creator of the Longest-Running Musical ‘The Fantasticks,’ Dies at 95

Lore Noto, the original producer of the off-Broadway musical "The Fantasticks," is flanked by the plays authors Tom Jones (L) and Harvey Schmidt at the tiny Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village on Jan. 13, 2002. Tina Fineberg/AP Photo

NEW YORK—Tom Jones, the lyricist, director, and writer of “The Fantasticks,” the longest-running musical in history, has died. He was 95.

Mr. Jones died Friday at his home in Sharon, Connecticut, according to Dan Shaheen, a co-producer of “The Fantasticks,” who worked with Mr. Jones since the 1980s. The cause was cancer.