BURBANK, Calif. — Everyone knows what it’s like to be self-conscious of certain aspects of your appearance. Even actor Frankie A. Rodriguez.

“My nose came in, I think my eighth grade, and I was like ‘Oh my gosh, what is this?’” he recalled. “And it was almost like overnight.”

It’s an insecurity his character has to face head on in the musical “Calvin Berger” playing at the Colony Theatre. 

“Just the nose being so big and being so self-conscious about it,” he remembered, “and really always thinking, ‘Everybody’s looking at your nose. Everybody’s looking at your nose.’ When, in reality, no one cares!”

This show — a musical set in a high school — is kind of Rodriguez’s sweet spot. His face is no doubt familiar to fans of the Disney+ series “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.” Although the two stories are very different, he says there are some similar themes.

“Meeting you where you are and understanding that you’re still growing and changing and things will shift and move,” he explained. “But just accepting who you are.”

Calvin Berger is a four person show — a reimagining of Cyrano de Bergerac had Cyrano been a 21st century high school student saving his allowance for a nose job. In this telling, his Roxanne is Rosanna, played by Jasmine Sharma, who is glad to break away from the part’s usual pedestal of perfection.

“When you’re in high school, and you’re worried about fitting in and how to make friends and operate in the hallway like a normal person, I think the awkwardness naturally comes out,” she said. “So I’m excited to play her in a more adolescent, spirited way.”

The set lends itself to that playfulness. Rodriguez calls it a puzzle and loves how full of secret surprises it is. Pull out one color block and spin it and there’s a bed. Other boxes slide out to become lockers or a table.

“It’s like an interactive Barbie DreamHouse,” he laughed.

Calvin Berger was written in 2006, a time when most of the kids currently in high school weren’t even born yet, so this quartet of teens inhabit in a world blissfully free of social media. Still, the pressure to live up to someone else’s standards remains keenly felt, be it magazine covers or one’s peers. There’s a learning curve for everyone in this fictitious high school, with lessons Rodriguez hopes audiences will take away with them.

“How you feel about yourself will change,” he explained, “but just kind of going forward with positive thoughts, and kind of amping yourself up.”

Sound advice that’s right on the nose.