[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] New York University anthropology student Emily Kirsten studies the customs of the Dembeschti tribe of nomadic gypsies for her Ph.D. thesis.

He works out of a dilapidated storefront in a Manhattan slum and needs to raise $9,000 to purchase Anyanka from the Moyva King of Newark as a bride for his handsome son Steve.

Anyanka is so anxious to seal the deal she offers to stage a bajour to help finance it, and complications ensue when she targets Emily's widowed mother as her victim.

The Billboard reviewer, in writing about the Boston tryout, noted: "Bajour at the moment is overlong and lacks real distinction in its treatment of an unusual theme.