New York's only immersive Bloomsday Breakfast -- hosted by Origin Theatre Company and Bloom's Tavern, 208 East 58th Street -- will be bursting with talent this year in an expanded edition, at a new time. Landing on a Saturday, the June 16 free event will begin at 11:30am instead of the usual time and feature an expanded line-up of talent and a juried costume competition that will be bigger and more festive than ever.
"Origin's 5th Bloom... @ Bloom's Tavern of Course!" -- produced by Origin Theatre Company at Bloom's Tavern features these notable actors, singers and personalities: Ciaran Byrne; Terry Donnelly; Patrick Fitzgerald; Sean Gormley; Niamh Hyland; Elmore James; Charlotte Moore; Paula Nance; David O'Hara; David O'Leary of Trí -- The New Irish Tenors; Ciarán Sheehan; Aidan Redmond; Colin Ryan; Fiona Walsh; and The James Joyce Reading Group. The Irish-folk-rock troubadour Alan Gogarty on guitar is the event's music director. Opening remarks will be offered by the Irish Consul General Ciaran Madden. The FREE, site-specific event fueled by a traditional Irish breakfast, with blood sausage, kidney pie and refreshing summer drinks, commemorates the Dublin summer day chronicled in James Joyce's landmark novel "Ulysses" -- June 16, 1904. With readings from "Ulysses," musical interludes, and jolly pronouncements by a number of distinguished VIP's, the event also includes the announcement of the "Origin in Bloom" Literary Prize, which honors an Irish or Irish-American author with a unique connection to New York. (The beloved writer and activist Malachy McCourt won the inaugural "Origin in Bloom" Literary Prize last year.)Videos