Radio Bloomsday Sizzle Reel

Only 9 months until Radio Bloomsday 2015.  To tide you over, enjoy a highlight reel from recent broadcasts featuring Alec Baldwin, Paul Muldoon, Wallace Shawn, Anne Enright and John Lithgow.

Radio Bloomsday 2014 Set List 7pm to 2am on wbai.org

 
Happy Bloomsday!  Radio Bloomsday 2014 is broadcast tonight beginning at 7pm EST and finishing at 2am on WBAI.ORG.  It is a rebroadcast of last year's show so the cast and crew will be able to listen in bed at home just like you.  We are very excited to be part of the Radio Bloomsday audience this year.

Please write to us on our Radio Bloomsday Facebook page or send an email to radiobloomsday@gmail.com and let us know that you are listening and what you think!

Below you'll find the order of the program from 7pm to 2am on wbai.org

Radio Bloomsday Set List

7pm     In Search of Father                                                                                                                                                                            Telemachus with Roger Norris on voice and Graeme Norris on saxophone                            
Garrison Keillor - Wandering Rocks                                                  

Mannix Beall O’Brien and Felix Norris-Lindsay -  Cyclops                                      

Kate Valk - W.B Yeats The Stolen Child                                                              

Johnny O’Callaghan in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man                                                           

Heather Woodbury  WanderingRocks                                                                                                                                       

Brian O’Doherty – Wandering Rocks                                                                                                 

Nick McDonnell – Wandering Rocks                                               

Paul Muldoon – Proteus                                                               

John Lithgow – Alone by James Joyce                                                              

Jerry Stiller and Amy Stiller    Milly and Leopold in Calypso                                                    

Nausicaa – Mara McEwin                                                                       

8pm     Mother Father God                                                                                                                  

Janet Coleman and David Dozer – Father in all His meanings                                               

Michael Elias – Bloom’s Father Dying                                       

Jerry Stiller – Aeolus                                   

Tom Hagen -Telemachus                                                                                                                           

Ithaca – Paul Dooley/Bob Odenkirk                                                           

Susannah Norris – Lindsay – Cyclops and Circe

Ralph Martin  Whistle           

Johnny Coughlan Banjo           

Brad Maestas  Mandolin            

Steven Antonelli guitar

John Ligthgow Oxen of the Sun                                                           

Alec Baldwin – A Portrait of the Artist                                                           

Fiana Toibin  - Scylla and Charybdis                                                                                                             

Hamlet – T Ryder Smith                                                                       

Frank Delaney – Leopold Bloom in Church                                                                                               

John Spinks –  Wandering Rocks                                                                                                             

Bob Fass – Cyclops

Barbara Ann Michaels - Cyclops                                                  

                                                                                                                          

9pm      Fathers, Babies, Birth                                                                                                                                  

Heather Woodbury – Wandering Rocks                                                                                                                                    

Wallace Shawn, Anne Enright – Calypso                                                                                                                                     

Nicholas Elliot Oxen of the Sun                                                                                                  
Kate Valk – Oxen of the Sun                                               

Bob Odenkirk – Leopold Bloom monologue                                                                                                                                                          

John Lithgow - Oxen of the Sun                                                                                                                                               

Zeroboy – Sirens                                                                                                                                       

Sirens – Tara Bahna-James, Aaron Beall, Melanie  Martinez                                                                                                             

Eileen Ruby sings John Cage                                                               

James Joyce – Finnegans Wake                                                                                      

10pm      Unfaithful Fathers

                                                                                                               

Tim Jerome – Judge Woolsey decision on Ulysses                                                                                                                           

Marie Louise Bowe and Martin O’Connell  - musical interlude                                                                                                           

Jim Fletcher Solo                                                                                                            

Johnny O’Callaghan and Roma Downey – Lotus Eaters                                                                          

Tim Jerome – Wandering Rocks                                                                                                                           

Marie Louise and Martin and Christine de Michele - Loves Old Sweet Song                                                                                                            

Circe – T. Ryder Smith, Aaron Beall, Charles Busch                                                                          

Frank Delaney – Eumaeus                                                              

Paul Dooley, Bob Odenkirk, Ithaca                                      

Alec Baldwin – James Joyce’s letters to Nora                                                                       

Lord Byron poems – Johnny O’Callaghan, Jaason Simmons                                                                          

                                                                                                                                                  

11pm      The Molly Duologue

Molly (Bernadette Quigley and Caraid O’Brien)                                                                                                             

Tarab – Tarab.ie
Saw Doctors
John McCormack                                                                                                                                  

2PM END SHOW

The Molly Bloom Duologue: A Preview

Listen to a 4 minute preview of the 3 hour Molly Bloom Duologue with Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley.  The complete text recorded live will be broadcast on Monday, June 16th at 11pm on wbai.org.

Radio Bloomsday 2014: The Molly Bloom Duologue

WBAI Broadcasts Caraid O’Brien & Bernadette Quigley's Complete Molly Bloom Monologue as a Duo Dialogue 

on Radio Bloomsday 2014

New York, NY -- Back by popular demand, the innovative performance of the complete Molly Bloom monologue from James Joyce’s Ulysses recorded live on June 16, 2013 by not one but two actresses, Caraid O’Brien and Bernadette Quigley, will be rebroadcast nationwide on Monday, June 16, 2014. Tune into Radio Bloomsday on WBAI (99.5 FM in NYC) or stream at wbai.org beginning at 7pm until the wee hours of the morning.   Each year, Radio Bloomsday ends its 7 hour nationwide broadcast of James Joyce’s Ulysses with the novel's final celebrated chapter – a two and a half hour passion filled monologue, by the novel’s heroine, Molly Bloom.  For the second year the re-imagined monologue will be presented as a conversation that Molly has with her younger self, with every word still faithful to the text of one of the most celebrated chapters in literature ever.  The Molly duo begins at 11.

The Molly Bloom soliloquy is also the most sexually explicit chapter in Ulysses and the reason why the book is so frequently censored.  Molly, a soprano, has spent the day in bed with her lover Blazes Boylan while her husband, Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin. Throughout the two and a half hour episode, a flood of memories is unleashed as the two Mollys spend the night together, attempting to unravel the mysteries of their art, their lovers and their lives. Despite all the men that have crossed Molly’s path, she is her own most faithful companion.

Ms. O'Brien says, "From the moment I first read Molly Bloom’s monologue on my bed in Mount Scopus in Jerusalem where I was studying Yiddish literature, that episode became the road map for my own artistic experience. Like Molly, I fantasize about a time of endless financial resources, when I have an limitless supply of costumes to wear onstage, and can throw a handful of tea in the pot without scrimping to make it last as long as possible.  Like Molly, I am a performer who spends more time in bed than I do on stage."

Earlier in the evening, from 7:00 p.m. on, WBAI's Radio Bloomsday's broadcast includes a kaleidoscope of global artistic talent united by a passion for getting under the hood of the most influential novel of the twentieth century - James Joyce's Ulysses.  Commemorating Father’s Day, the broadcast explores the often complicated relationship between fathers and their children as portrayed in Ulysses. 

This year’s performers ranging in age from 5 to 85 years of age include Alec Baldwin, Aaron Beall, Mannix Beall-O’Brien, Marie-Louise Bowe, Justin Vivian Bond, Charles Busch, Janet Coleman, Frank Delaney, Paul Dooley, Roma Downey, David Dozer, Anne Enright, Jim Fletcher, Garrison Keillor, Michael Laurence, John Lithgow, Marc Maron, Nick McDonell, Paul Muldoon, Felix Norris-Lindsay, John O’Callaghan, Bob Odenkirk, Wallace Shawn, Marc Singer, T. Ryder Smith, Jerry Stiller, Tarab, Kate Valk, Heather Woodbury, Fiona Walsh, Zeroboy and many others. Musicians appearing on the broadcast include Australian performers Roger Norris, Graeme Norris and Susannah Norris-Lindsay, All Ireland button accordion champion, Martin O’Connell, fiddle player Marie-Louise Bowe, singer Eileen Ruby, Steven Antonelli, Ralph Martin, Johnny Coughlan, and Brad Maestas.

The Mollys Bloom (Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley) photographed by Louie Correia

BIO's:

Born in Galway, Ireland, Caraid O'Brien is a writer, performer and director.  She is the director of Radio Bloomsday, an annual marathon radio performance of James Joyce’s Ulysses featuring over 100 performers on WBAI.  Her direction of Bloomsday on Broadway for Symphony Space is available on CD starring Stephen Colbert.  Caraid graduated summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with a BA in Yiddish literature from Boston University, studied Yiddish and Hebrew at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Irish (Gaelic) at the National University of Ireland. www.caraidobrien.com 

Bernadette Quigley has performed the Molly Bloom soliloquy live at Symphony Space.  Her many film and t.v. credits include The Suspect, Dream House starring Daniel Craig, The House Is Burning, Jim Sheridan’s Oscar-nominated In America, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Kings and most recently, Unforgettable. Quigley has also performed on and off-Broadway and extensively in regional theaters across the U.S. www.bernadettequigley.com

The Complete Molly Bloom Monologue - A studio recording

The Penelope episode from Ulysses - Molly Bloom's 3 hour interior monologue as she thinks over her life, her lovers and her children, is available in its entirety to listen to here.  This recording was made in a studio by Caraid O'Brien in 2011 over several weeks at The Radio Foundation on the Upper West Side of New York City, a popular hangout for Joyce fanatics.  The version you hear will Caraid perform on Radio Bloomsday this Monday June 16th together with the actress Bernadette Quigley is a live performance done in three hours without interruption.