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Actors and avid Joyceans read James Joyce’s Ulysses

Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV: Leopold’s Women Bloom celebrates the 101st anniversary of the most famous fictional date in literature, June 16, 1904—when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce’s Ulysses—with these selections from the book recorded live on Thursday, June 16, 2005.

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1 – A Whirlwind Tour of the Women in Ulysses
The chorus of 34 Mollys, an excerpt in Yiddish, Josie, Gertie, Bella and Bloom

1. Introduction (3:58)
2. Chorus of 34 Mollys (5:25)
3. Lestrygonians (6:21)
4. Wandering Rocks (3:49)
5. Sirens (7:51)
6. Seaside Girls (2:28)
7. Nausicaa (14:58)
8. Down by The Sally Gardens (3:02)
9. Oxen of the Sun (11:10)
10. Joyce’s Letter to Nora (3:40)
11. Circe (10:17)

Disc 2 – Finnegans Wake – Chamber Music – Calypso
Marian Seldes as Anna Livia; Stephen Colbert as Bloom, Isaiah Sheffer narrates

1. A Review of Finnegans Wake (2:19)
2. O Tell Me (2:22)
3. Anna Livia Plurabelle from Finnegans Wake (13:01)
4. Flowers for my Daughter, Noise of the Waters and Ecce Puer (10:22)
5. Calypso – The Complete Text (40:54)

Disc 3 – Lotus Eaters and the Dead
Stephen Colbert as Bloom, Isaiah Sheffer narrates
Fritz Weaver and Rochelle Oliver read from The Dead

1. Shul Aroon (2:36)
2. Lotus Eaters – The Complete Text (44:58)
3. A Letter from Joyce (2:19)
4. The Lass of Aughrim (2:42)
5. The Dead (16:03)
6. A Letter from Sylvia Beach (3:29)

Disc 4 – MoNoLope – Molly Bloom’s Penelope Monologue
Read by Terry Donnelly

1. Three Letters from Joyce (9:20)
2. Love’s Old Sweet Song (2:17)
3. Penelope (62:58)

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