Bajour
Shows · Bajour
Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker.
- Opened
- 1964
- Performances
- 232
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1964 | Shubert Theatre Original. November 23, 1964 · Lawrence Kasha | 232 performances |
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Recordings 2 albums held
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14 passages naming Bajour, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
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)! book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p134
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p39
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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p364
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. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p75
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. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p667
In addition to the guilty pleasure Bajour were two West coast closings: Zenda with Alfred Drake, and 1491, the Christopher Columbus “musical speculation,” with John Cullum. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p182
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