Bajour, 1964

The run closed June 12, 1965

Opened

November 23, 1964

Closed

June 12, 1965

Performances

232

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Shubert Theatre

Of the 605 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and carry a performance count, this is the 105th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it49 named

Anita Alpert
Asya
Eileen Barbaris
Connie Burnett
John Cashman
Harry Danner
Betsy Dickerson
Mariana Doro
Vito Durante
Dick Ensslen
Peter Falzone
Gene Foote
Bick Goss
Fernando Grahal
Liza Howell
Kasimir Kokich
Robert Kristen
Urylee Leonardos
Sal Lombardo
Evy Love
Marc Maskin
Stan Mazin
Madeline Miller
Carmen Morales
Eugene Morgan
Carolyn Morris
Jessica Quinn
Dan Rehg
Jeanne Repp
Antonia Rey
Geri Seignious
Paul Sorvino
Jeanne Tanzy
Terry Violino
Billi Vitali
Anna Marie Moylan
Pierre Epstein

12 of these 49 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 37 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters11 roles held

Nancy Dussault Emily Kirsten
Chita Rivera Anyanka
Herschel Bernardi Johnny Dembo
Robert Burr Lou MacNiall
Mae Questel Helene Kirsten
Gus Trikonis Steve
Herbert Edelman The King of Newark
Antonia Rey Loopa
Lucie Lancaster The Chairlady
Carmen Morales Olga
Jeanne Tanzy Marfa

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Lawrence Kasha

Choreographer

Peter Gennaro

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Bajour, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Bajour stayed open for almost eight months, even moving from the Shubert to the Lunt-Fontanne, but it closed at a financial loss in excess of its initial investment of $480,000.

• His career was astonishing, encompassing ten Broadway shows in the 1964-65 season alone (including such scenically demanding ones as Baker Street, Bajour, and flop of flops Kelly)! Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 134
• The 1964 musicals continuing into the new year consisted of Dolly!, Funny Girl, and—from the fall season—Fiddler, as well as ultimate failures Oh, What a Lovely War, Golden Boy, Ben Franklin in Paris, Bajour, and I Had a Ball. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 39
• The project initiated with songwriter Walter Marks, who'd made a fairly reasonable debut—not especially good, but certainly not embarrassing—with the 1964 flop Bajour. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 364
• When he first arrived in New York City, Bennett was a chorus member in a string of unremarkable Broadway shows—Subways Are for Sleeping (1961), Here’s Love (1963), and Bajour (1964)—and a featured dancer on TV’s Hullabaloo (1965–1966), where he met his muse, Donna McKechnie. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 75
• A few of Rivera’s Broadway shows were unsuccessful—Bajour (1964) and Merlin (1983)—but she was a positive presence in many more hits than failures. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 667

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Bajour document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.