Bloomsday on Broadway celebrates June 16, 1904, the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce's Ulysses. Since 1981, hundreds of acclaimed actors have joined avid Joyceans, writers, critics, and scholars on stage at Symphony Space to read selections from the book that heralded the birth of modern literature.

Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV: Leopold's Women Bloom was recorded at Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City on Thursday, June 16, 2005.

Highlights Include:

A Whirlwind Tour of Women in Ulysses

The Chorus of 34 Mollys

Mr. Bloom speaks Yiddish

Barbara Feldon as Madame Bella Cohen

Bernadette Quigley as Gertie

Stephen Colbert as Bloom

Isaiah Sheffer narrates the complete Calypso and Lotus Eaters episodes

Marian Seldes reads from Finnegans Wake

Fritz Weaver and Rochelle Oliver read from The Dead

Terry Donnelly as Molly

Plus several sopranos singing from Molly's repertoire