Bajour (musical)

Bajour
Original Cast Album
MusicWalter Marks
LyricsWalter Marks
BookErnest Kinoy
BasisJoseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies
Productions1964 Broadway

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.[1][2] The title is allegedly a Romani word for a con game in which lonely and unhappy women are swindled out of their life savings.[3]

  1. ^ "'Bajour' cast, production, and plot listing" masterworksbroadway.com, retrieved December 26, 2010
  2. ^ Gross, Mike."'Bajour' Misses, But Marks Makes Mark"Billboard (books.google.com), December 5, 1964, p. 20
  3. ^ Gans, Andrew."Ralston, Desai, Rodriguez and More Set for Mufti Bajour" playbill.com, July 6, 2007