WINTER 2024: The main stage production for the Department of Creative Arts for the spring semester of 2024 featured an original musical that Dr. Emert adapted from content from the Marketplace podcast for young listeners, “Million Bazillion,” a show about money for kids and their families. The show includes five songs embedded within a series of scenes in which the characters learn about who first invented coins, the U.S. mint, features of the one dollar bill, and state and local taxes.
Professor Tracey Laird served as the musical director for the show, and Professor Jason Solomon and Dr. Emert wrote the music; he arranged the songs and played guitar in the band for the show. The musical ran in the Winter Theatre in the Dana Fine Arts Building on the Agnes Scott campus in late February and was nominated for six Certificates of Merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF): playwriting, direction, arrangement, musical direction, set design, and costume design.
(Photos by Casey Sykes.)
Toby Emert, Ph.D. 