From Marietta to Mississippi for Music(Fest)

From Marietta to Mississippi for Music(Fest)

A camp participant performs in a dress rehearsal for a Summer Scholars theater production.
Photo by Romeo Candelario

June 29, 2026

Trinity Hirshfield, a student at Pope High School in Marietta, Georgia, traveled almost 290 miles to “play her part” in MSU’s Summer Scholars On Stage camp. Celebrating its 45th year, camp participants produced and performed an original musical comedy “Face the Music(Fest)” this past weekend. The camp’s three-act production dove into a high-stakes revenge plot set on a fictional college campus, featuring 10 original songs and a storyline packed with everything from romance to zombies and albino alligators.