Records of the Waa-Mu Show, 1929-1992.

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Records of the Waa-Mu Show, 1929-1992.

Production records of annual student musical revue, including scripts, lyrics, correspondence, reports, and financial records. (The name Waa-Mu comes from the two organizations that founded the revue, the Women's Athletic Association and the Men's Union)

15 cubic ft. (45 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6678424

Northwestern University

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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...