"Frenchy, (played here by the effervescent Ciarra Stroud) offers Stroud plenty of opportunity to explore the confusing vicissitudes of adolescence. The staging of "Beauty School Dropout" has her standing with her back to the audience watching as her dreamed-of future unravels in front of her. But the teenage years are a time for overreaching, and Stroud's reaction when it's over basically says, 'let's just get on with life then.'"

-Karen Topham, Chicago on Stage