Photographs of the Waa-Mu Show 1929-2001

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Photographs of the Waa-Mu Show 1929-2001

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Waa-Mu is a musical review created and performed by Northwestern students since 1929. The series consists of photographic prints and other images documenting most Waa-Mu Shows from the period 1929-1991. Images appear in a variety of physical formats and sizes; nearly all are black-and-white. The vast bulk of the prints is the work of skilled professional photographers; some photographs are by talented Northwestern students while a small percentage appears to be the product of less proficient amateurs. A few images found within the series are in the form of half-tone prints clipped from published sources. The acts, skits, numbers and individuals depicted in the images often are unidentified.

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Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Waa-Mu Show

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Northwestern's Waa-Mu Show, the musical revue that helped to launch the careers of dozens of Broadway and Hollywood performers, has been a campus tradition since 1929. The goal of the annual show is to celebrate all the aspects of musical theater and highlight the talents of undergraduate student performers. In 1929, as a senior, Northwestern student Joseph W. Miller and his classmate Darrell Ware wrote the script and staged the college musical comedy that became “The Wa...