Tom Jones (writer)
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Tom Jones (born in 1928 in Littlefield, Texas) is a lyricist (and often librettist) of musical theatre, best known for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002.
All of Jones' major musicals were written with Harvey Schmidt whom he met at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Shows
- Shoestring '57 (contributor) (1957)
- Demi-Dozen (contributor) (1958)
- The Fantasticks (1960)
- 110 in the Shade (book by N. Richard Nash, based on his play The Rainmaker) (1963)
- I Do! I Do! (based on The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog) (1966)
- Celebration (1969)
- Colette (1970)
- Philemon (1973)
- Grover's Corners (based on Our Town) (1987)
- Mirette (book by Elizabeth Diggs, based on the children's book Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully) (1996)
- Harold and Maude (music by Joseph Thalken, based on the film) (2004)