Heavenly Music

7/27/2025

All-American musician “Ted” (Frederick Brady) finds himself in heaven trying to convince a formidable collection of his historical peers that he is fit to be admitted to their eternal hall of music. Under the chairmanship of Beethoven (Steven Geray) these famed composers ask for a demonstration of his work, but he rather riskily points out that with only seven notes on the scale, just about everyone from Paganini and Liszt has pinched from Tchaikovsky and Wagner! Needless to say, they don’t respond so well to that assertion, so require that he compose a work of his own in just ten minutes. Luckily, he has a bit of angelic assistance from “Joy” (Mary Elliott) but can he convince the great and the good that his “Heavenly Music” is a patch on “Für Elise”? I quite enjoyed this mischievous shor