WAA-MU 2010:
KEEPING TIME

It's About Time! Follow this year's talented troupe of writers and performers as they take audiences on an irreverent journey through the annals of history. Be a witness to civilization's momentous events and history's most important cast of characters, as depicted through this time-travelling showcase of song and dance, featuring lavish costumes, colorful sets and outstanding choreography. As the final year for Jeff Award-winning Dominic Missimi to direct this traditional audience favorite, Waa-Mu 2010 is not to be missed!

Share your memories of Waa-Mu
Waa-Mu 2010 marks the final year for Jeff Award-winning director Dominic Missimi to direct this traditional audience favorite.  Do you have a story of working on a show with Dominic or seeing a show directed by Dominic that you would like to share?  Become a fan of Waa-Mu on Facebook and post your favorite "Missimi Memories!" (If you don't have access to Facebook, email your memories to tic@northwestern.edu and we will post for you.)

Co-Chairs: RB Embleton and Lindsay Powell

Cahn Auditorium
600 Emerson Street, Evanston

Special May 9 Waa-Mu Brunch
Join us for a Waa-Mu tradition and perfect Mother's Day gift. A special pre-show buffet will be offered this year at Hilton Garden Inn Evanston, with a welcome and entertainment provided by Dominic Missimi and members of the Waa-Mu cast. Brunch will be available from 11:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. and free parking is located nearby. Brunch tickets are $39. Performance tickets must be purchased separately.

Waa-Mu is Northwestern University's own original music revue, written, performed and presented by Northwestern students. Its quirky name stands for the two organizations that banded together to present the first show in 1929, the W.A.A. (Women's Athletic Association) and the M.U. (Men's Union). Since then, Waa-Mu has become a virtual institution for budding young theatrical talent. As one of the founders, Joe Miller, once said, "Waa-Mu gives students the biggest musical revue this side of Broadway. That's not bragging... that's what the show is and has to be." Pulitzer Prize winner and lyricist of Fiddler on the Roof, as well as accomplished Waa-Mu alum Sheldon Harnick wrote: "Any young writer who would like to write for theatre should take advantage of the opportunity afforded by the Waa-Mu show. Not only will his material be set, costumed and orchestrated in a professional matter, but even more importantly, it will be performed in front of large audiences... Whether the experience is exhilarating or depressing, it's bound to be enlightening."

Splashy sets, elaborate chorus numbers, amazing young talent and well-written material are a hallmark of Waa-Mu. It is a show that has spawned the likes of such talents as Warren Beatty, Paul Lynde, Walter Kerr, Gregg Edelman, Cloris Leachman and many more. As Mr. Lynde wrote to Joe Miller from New York in 1956, "The three Waa-Mu shows I did with you at NU still rank above anything I have done or seen in this town."

The old cliché "you have to see it to believe it" certainly rings true for what the Associated Press once called "the greatest college show in America."