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| 1964 | Shubert Theatre Original. November 23, 1964 · Lawrence Kasha | 232 performances |
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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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