Participants spend a large proportion of the year researching, designing, executing and evaluating community action projects that are realistic, sustainable and impactful and that address their concerns about issues affecting other young people and the communities in which they all live.

Youth audiences who attend the premiere respond overwhelmingly to their peers' performances. Being in the audience for these performances is profoundly important and impactful for these teenagers, giving them not only a rare trip to experience quality theater, but allowing them to witness other teenagers using their voices to convey their imperative messages and exposing the teenage audience members to the issues also prevalent in their lives in a new and exciting format.

Reviews of the evening taken from audience evaluation forms are always exceptionally positive, indeed profoundly moving, proving that those present are deeply affected by the cast, the show and its content.
Audiences, including many new and nontraditional members of all cultures and from all five boroughs, including many parents, guardians and teachers, also express that, in response to the performance, they will be more attuned to the issues of young people in our society and become more active in their participation in their lives.

After the Off-Broadway Spring premiere of their original musical, the cast tours the powerful and hard-hitting show to local and regional high schools, community centers, and conferences such as the "Get Real"

Conference at Columbia University's Teacher's College. The participants produce educational materials for teachers; create peer education workshops; participate in leadership training, and actually serve in many capacities as leaders of the program's operations.

Because they take a leading role in all elements of the production, the teens develop the relationship, interpersonal, communication, analysis and creative skills needed to foster personal and social change.