It’s about starting over. You’ve left your comfort zone and moved hundreds of miles from home with your close pals from college. You’ve just left your partner of three years because you caught him in bed with some chorus boy. You’ve never had a real job other than working at TGI Fridays for two summers and have no New York experience. It’s about the young gay community and the gal pals that toast them over “all you can drink” brunch. It’s about loving your art. It’s about creating your New York family: the people you have iTunes dance parties with at 2 AM, the buddies by your side when you’re having a “come apart,” and the friends that encourage you to get off the couch, go to that audition, and crash that industry party—even when an E! True Hollywood Story marathon is on. It’s about Astoria, Queens. Ten minutes from Manhattan on the N/R/W with affordable rent and fabulous Greek cuisine. Just follow the yellow train home.
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, four Kansas City "twentysomethings" navigate their new lives in the scary, yet exciting "Emerald City" of New York...
It’s about the time in your life when you can’t afford to buy toilet paper—so you steal some at the corner bar. You’re living off slices of pizza and cereal, and you dread that call at the end of the month to ask your parents for rent money. Those moments in your early and mid-twenties when you can fe
el your life changing: you catch eyes with the cute boy on the train, get a good review for an off-off Broadway show that’s truly “off-off-awful,” get a second interview for your entry-level dream job—your dream job with a salary below poverty level. “New York, I love you, but you’re freaking me out.”
