Dissonance

Focused on the Bradley String Quartet, created and overseen by the abrasive and tyrannical James Bradley. Beth, the cellist, has been approached by a rock superstar who has offered her, at a huge salary, an opportunity to teach him classical music, with the idea of incorporating it into his next album.

Jonny, the rock star, sweetly and winningly played by Gregory Wooddell, is a gentle soul, and not at all the archetype of a degenerate, drug-soaked, self absorbed pop celebrity, despite the gargantuan self portrait that dominates, like a rumpled guru, his Tribeca apartment.

He has depth, compassion and an honest desire to learn the music he has so far avoided in his gigantically successful life. Mr. Wooddell strikes all of these notes and more, and makes of Jonny a sympathetic and lovable person and—as it happens—a catalyst to uncover the many dissonances both between and within the members of the string quartet.