“The Fantasticks” was the longest-running musical in U.S. theater history, with more than 17,160 performances.
Mr. Jones then reunited with Schmidt in attempts to bring an iteration of “Dead Horse” to Broadway. A director, Charles “Word” Baker, offered a chance to present a scaled-down version at New York’s Barnard College. Mr. Jones and Schmidt rebuilt their play leaner and virtually without set design. Mr. Jones said they borrowed some elements of historical theater, including the mostly bare stage of Elizabethan theater that relies on audience imagination.
“It was amazing that we had a second night, much less that we were able to run that first week with hardly any audience,” he said. “What had we done wrong? What had we done right?”Thomas Collins Jones was born in Littlefield, Tex., on Feb. 17, 1928, and raised near the middle of the state in Coleman. His father was a turkey farmer, and his mother was a homemaker.that he intentionally stood out in rural Texas.
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