wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theater at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in American theater history and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. It is currently running in a successful revival in New York. Their first Broadway show, 110 in the Shade, was successfully revived a few years ago by Roundabout Theatre, starring Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do!, their two-character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was a success on Broadway and is frequently done around the world. (One production in Minneapolis played for 22 years with the same two actors.) For several years, Jones and Schmidt worked privately at their theater workshop, concentrating on small-scale musicals in new and, often, untried forms. The most notable were Celebration, which moved to Broadway, and Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette, starring Zoe Caldwell, and later did a full musical version titled Colette Collage. In 1998, The Show Goes On, a revue of their songs starring themselves, was presented at York Theatre, and Mirette, based on the award-winning children’s book, premiered at Goodspeed Opera House. In addition to an Obie and a 1992 special Tony for The Fantasticks, their “stars” were added in 1999 to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lortel Theatre.