Celebrating its 45th year, Mississippi State’s Summer Scholars On Stage program will debut its newest original musical comedy “Face the Music(Fest)” later this month.

The camp’s three-act production dives 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.

Free and open to the public, performances are scheduled for Friday, June 26, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, June 27, at 1 p.m. on the main stage of McComas Hall, located at 127 Presidents Circle on the MSU campus.

Founded in 1983 by long-time director Joe Ray Underwood and now directed by Stephen Cunetto, the multidisciplinary camp guides artistic middle and high school students through the intense, three-week process of developing story concepts, creating characters, writing dialogue and shaping a script for a final live performance. This year, the writing, technical and theatrical camp welcomed more than 50 students in grades 7-12 from across the Southeast and even Michigan to MSU’s campus.