The following is a review of a production of FRECKLEFACE STRAWBERRY THE MUSICAL which took place in November at the Circa 21 Dinner Playhouse in Illinois written by Thom White for the River City Reader.  Here's an excerpt:

The Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse and director Kimberly Furness have done it again, crafting a family production that’s charming and a whole lot of fun for both the kids and the adults in the audience. My partner’s nine-year-old daughter Madison and I enjoyed Friday’s performance of Freckleface Strawberry: The Musicalimmensely, even though neither of us is at all familiar with the children’s-book character the show is based on.

Seeing playwrights Gary Kupper’s and Rose Caiola’s stage adaptation of author Julianne Moore’s book had me wishing that book existed when I was a child, given its lessons about diversity, acceptance, and valuing others for, or in spite of, their differences. Strawberry is a freckled, red-haired child who is made fun of for her looks, and the show finds her hating her facial spots and wishing they’d disappear so much that she'll do anything – such as donning a funny-looking pink-and-green ski mask – to hide her identity, even if it means no longer being herself.
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Read the full article HERE.