Greta Grosch

A performer, trainer and writer, Grosch has a wealth of experience in both commercial and business theatre, and has written dozens of theatrical scripts, including five of the highly successful CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES’ musicals: A Second Helping; Away in the Basement; A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement; the Last (Potluck) Supper; and Rise Up, O Men. Additionally Greta writes the annual Medora Musical, and has scripted numerous awards shows and original cabarets. Other works include: Christmas on the Ranch, a Cowboy Musical and Achy Breaky Boyz, the Geezer Musical.

A performer, trainer and writer, Grosch has a wealth of experience in both commercial and business theatre, and has written dozens of theatrical scripts, including five of the highly successful CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES’ musicals: A Second Helping; Away in the Basement; A Mighty Fortress is Our Basement; the Last (Potluck) Supper; and Rise Up, O Men. Additionally Greta writes the annual Medora Musical, and has scripted numerous awards shows and original cabarets. Other works include: Christmas on the Ranch, a Cowboy Musical and Achy Breaky Boyz, the Geezer Musical.

Scripts

Lemonade for the Lawnboy, the Musical!

by Greta Grosch

Cast Size
8
Genre
biography,
comedy,
drama,
movement/physical,
musical

LEMONADE FOR THE LAWNBOY, the Musical! explores the magical, yet tangled, intersection between the genius of art and the self-destruction of addiction.

David, aka “the Lawnboy”, is an artist and recovering addict. Using a variety of found objects (a garden hose, a plunger), David has created a bevy of upper crust ladies who join together to form “the Executives’ Wives Cookbook Committee” to raise funds for...

LEMONADE FOR THE LAWNBOY, the Musical! explores the magical, yet tangled, intersection between the genius of art and the self-destruction of addiction.

David, aka “the Lawnboy”, is an artist and recovering addict. Using a variety of found objects (a garden hose, a plunger), David has created a bevy of upper crust ladies who join together to form “the Executives’ Wives Cookbook Committee” to raise funds for charitable causes. The world of “the Ladies” is Technicolor, and bedazzled, and musical… and exists only in David’s head.

In the alternative black and white world of a suburban garage we meet Janet, a widow, and learn that David is living in her house. Janet took David in when he needed somewhere to go, and an unlikely friendship was born. This real world is non-musical.

In this multilayered story-within-a-story musical, there is a tension between David's two realities. The imaginary world of "the Ladies" is a Technicolor showplace with elaborate and campy musical production numbers, populated by over-the-top society women who, in actuality, are three dimensional art sculptures. This world is contrasted with drab reality, where a recovering drug addict is holed up in a grieving widow’s suburban garage, struggling with his demons as best he can.

This story of redemption is sometimes campy, sometimes touching, and always visually stimulating. The score is drawn from original jazz-pop tunes that have been adapted for a female ensemble, but the roles of "the ladies" can be played by either men or women.

LEMONADE FOR THE LAWNBOY runs 90 min and is performed without an intermission.

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