Lemonade! The Musical · 2025 Cast Recording
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A Yellow Harvest Brand Original
Lemonade!
The Musical

A kids' lemonade stand getting mixed up in a lawsuit with the biggest company in town? That's a recipe for disaster.

Music, Book & Lyrics by Dave Breidenstine, Sean Eisenhauer & John Fischer
Orchestrations by Jonathan Shoff

Sir Citrus
BroadwayWorld Award — Best New Musical, Central Pennsylvania · 2025

When life gives you lemons...

Welcome to the company town of Aquackanack, Pennsylvania, home of the Yellow Harvest Lemonade Company. For 154 years, Yellow Harvest has provided employment and a sense of local pride to its workers and community. But it has also created a need to conform, pledge allegiance, and never dare to be different.

When twins Wade and Ro Palmer accidentally destroy a priceless company heirloom, their browbeaten father Doug puts them to work making amends. They gravitate to the one thing they think will make them a quick buck: lemonade. But they soon uncover the town's true feelings on the current product: it stinks. With a little experimentation, they stumble upon a recipe that wins over the whole town.

Meanwhile, Yellow Harvest's anxious fifth-generation owner Alvin Costermonger, egged on by his ambitious lawyer Roger, responds the only way a corporation knows how: with a lawsuit and a media smear campaign. The only person in the building who thinks this might be a bad idea is Zoey, the executive assistant holding the whole operation together.

The people of Aquackanack will need to decide what they value most: the safety of tradition that's taking them nowhere, or the risk of something both new and nostalgic that can breathe new life into their town.

2008
Development began
Full productions
BroadwayWorld 2025 Regional Awards
Best New Musical
BroadwayWorld Regional Awards · Central Pennsylvania · 2025
Hershey Area Playhouse
Upcoming Staged Reading
Hershey Area Playhouse
August 22nd & 23rd · For more information, click here!
For ages 13 and older · Occasional zesty language, sour attitudes & bitter regrets

The people behind the lemonade stand

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Dave Breidenstine
Music, Book & Lyrics
Dave is a writer-composer-lyricist residing in Lebanon, PA. A co-creator of Lemonade! and frequent collaborator with John Fischer and Sean Eisenhauer, two of his closest friends for over 20 years, Dave has played keyboard, music-directed, and acted in many productions with Lebanon Community Theatre, Hershey Area Playhouse, Gretna Theatre, and Prima Theater.
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Sean Eisenhauer
Music, Book & Lyrics
Sean is a writer-lyricist based out of Brooklyn, New York. A co-creator of Lemonade! alongside Dave Breidenstine and John Fischer, Sean has professionally worked in television and film and has collaborated on movie scripts and web series pilots.
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John Fischer
Music, Book & Lyrics
John is a writer-lyricist living in Hamilton, New Jersey. A co-creator of Lemonade! alongside Dave Breidenstine and Sean Eisenhauer. His theatre career has spanned close to 30 years, having acted and directed in the Philadelphia and NJ region for the past 15. In the summer of 2026, he will direct Urinetown in Lambertville, NJ at Music Mountain Theatre.

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Jonathan Shoff
Orchestrations
Jonathan is an orchestrator residing in Lancaster, PA. He serves as a frequent music director at Hershey Area Playhouse and Lebanon Community Theatre, along with various high schools throughout Central Pennsylvania.
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Rick Graybill
Director (2025 Production)
Rick is an actor-director residing in Lebanon, PA. With more than 40 years of experience in the theatre, Rick has served on the Lebanon Community Theatre's Board of Directors since 2016 and directed the 2025 production of Lemonade! at Lebanon Community Theatre, which ran March 20–30, 2025.
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Johnathan Shuey
Audio Producer (2025 Production)
Johnathan Shuey is an audio producer, sound designer, and recording engineer based in Central Pennsylvania. He serves as Sound Designer and Audio Engineer at Gretna Theatre, and runs Shueymusic Studio, where he provides music arrangements and recording services. He is also one half of The Shueys, a music duo. Johnathan produced the 2025 cast recording of Lemonade! and can be reached at shueymusic@gmail.com.

Now available to stream

Lemonade! The Musical was recorded in studio with the full cast and pit orchestra. You can enjoy the songs by clicking the track listings on this site, with the cast recording coming soon to Spotify and Apple Music. You can also watch a full performance from the 2025 production at Lebanon Community Theatre on YouTube.

Lemonade! The Musical — 2025 Cast Recording (Front Cover)
Lemonade! The Musical — 2025 Cast Recording (Back Cover)
Lemonade! The Musical 2025 Cast Recording · Lebanon Community Theatre
1Lemonade!
2Costermonger and SonsE
3Why Can’t He Just Understand?
4It’s Kind of BlandE
5Zoey’s Plea
6Back on TopE
7Oh CrapE
8WAQK Action News 14E
9The End of the Day
10Yellow FeverE
11The Ballad of Ro and WadeE
12Zoey’s Final Plea
13Leading Man
14Giraffe Goes to Court
15The Town You Grew Up InE
16Costermonger and Sons (Reprise)E
17Too Big to FailE
18The Perfect BlendE
19The Bitter EndE
E Explicit content

The journey so far...

2008
The origin story
After writing a highly-litigious musical full of previously copyrighted material, Dave Breidenstine, Sean Eisenhauer, and John Fischer set out to write an original show that they could legally get performed. That idea became Lemonade!, a story about a bunch of kids unwittingly entering into a lawsuit.
2012
First public performance
The first public performance of Lemonade! took place at the Lebanon Community Theatre in the form of a staged reading of Act I. It was well received, but ultimately unfulfilling, largely due to the fact that there was no second act whatsoever. Coincidentally, work began on Act II.
2013
Crossing the Delaware
Lemonade! pulled a George Washington and crossed the Delaware into New Jersey for a workshop of the now completed show. A Q&A session quickly revealed that the show actually WASN’T completed, because there were some major rewrites to be had. A follow-up workshop at the LCT further proved this point to the stubborn authors.
2014
Jonathan Shoff joins the team
Jonathan Shoff was brought on board to orchestrate the updated score, but with a community theatre budget in mind. That’s right, folks: having a full pit orchestra for Lemonade! is affordable, practical, and just a downright good decision.
2015
First full production
With a script that now actually worked, the LCT kindly allowed a full production of Lemonade! to be staged at their venue, with sets, costumes, and the aforementioned affordable pit orchestra. It played for four performances, sold out two of them, came in well under budget, and then disappeared into the night, never to be seen or heard from again.
2021
Awakened from slumber
After a six-year hiatus, the COVID-19 pandemic reared its ugly head and awakened the long-dormant Lemonade! from its slumber. Cuts were made to make the show more equitable to those with sensitive bladders who can’t sit for that long between trips to the bathroom.
2022
A very nice table
A table read took place at the LCT with an updated script, a new cast, and a very nice table. The table was made of walnut. It was also long enough to accommodate all the actors and their scripts, and choice snacks and beverages as well. While the script and songs were much improved, the real star of the night was the table.
2023
Back to New Jersey
Lemonade! proved that it could thrive even without that amazing table by once again hauling tail over to New Jersey, where a (mostly) new cast of people read and sang through the further updated script. In a reversal of fortune, the trip to New Jersey proved that the script actually worked and wouldn’t need excessive rewrites and edits to function properly.
2025
Return to the stage · Lebanon Community Theatre
Ten years after the first full production of Lemonade! at LCT came the first SECOND full production of Lemonade!, this time as an official part of the 2025 LCT season. Tickets were sold. Laughs were had. Honestly, it was pretty great. And hey! If you scour this page hard enough, you might just find a link to a video of this production and be able to relive the magic from the comfort of wherever you are reading this, which is statistically probably the bathroom.
★ BroadwayWorld Award — Best New Musical, Central PA
2026
Cast recording released
The 2025 cast recording, produced by the OG Alvin Costermonger Johnathan Shuey, is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, and literally on this very website for the laziest Lemonade! fans out there.
Staged reading · Hershey Area Playhouse
Lemonade! heads to Hershey, PA — a city that smells like chocolate — for a staged reading at the Hershey Area Playhouse on August 22 and 23, 2026. The show has never been performed in a city this delicious.
Seeking future productions
The creative team is actively seeking theater productions of Lemonade! for 2026 and beyond, like 2027 or even maybe 2028. If your theater is looking for a sharp, funny original musical that comes with its own pit orchestra parts and an enthusiastic creative team, we are extremely available.
Official Lemonade! Merch
Designed for the 2025 production · available on TeePublic
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Booking & submission inquiries

Interested in producing Lemonade! The Musical at your theater and/or family get-togethers? We'd love to hear from you! Yes, YOU! The creative team is actively seeking regional productions and is available for conversations about licensing, perusal scripts, and performance rights. Or we can really chat about anything if you want. Boy, can you believe this economy?

Creative team
Dave Breidenstine · Sean Eisenhauer · John Fischer

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