Bajour | |
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Music | Walter Marks |
Lyrics | Walter Marks |
Book | Ernest Kinoy |
Basis | Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies |
Productions | 1964 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]