“Arch Madness”

May 2-11, 2025

Cahn Auditorium

Step into the WAA-MUltiverse in the 94th Annual Waa-Mu Show, Arch Madness! When Northwestern’s Weber Arch unlocks portals to alternate realities, students find themselves facing strange and thrilling versions of their lives: a high-achiever meets her younger self, forcing her to choose between academic success and a lost dream; an engineer battles an AI-controlled army of robot Wildcats; a singer stumbles into a show choir that doubles as a secret crime ring; and a truth-seeker, turned into a marionette, races to reclaim her freedom.

Don’t miss Arch Madness—the first-ever multi-dimensional musical—May 2–11, 2025, at Cahn Auditorium!

Tickets go on sale soon.

About Waa-Mu

The Waa-Mu Show is Northwestern University’s own original musical, written, performed, and presented by Northwestern students.

The Waa-Mu Show’s quirky name stands for the two organizations that banded together to present the first show in 1929, the Women’s Athletic Association (W.A.A.) and the Men’s Union (M.U.). Since then, Waa-Mu has become a virtual institution for budding young theatrical talent. As Northwestern’s oldest theatrical tradition, The Waa-Mu Show provides undergraduates with the unparalleled opportunity to create an original musical each year. Students serve as leaders in every aspect of development from conception through production to create a show exploring themes and stories that inspire us as college students, challenge us as musical theatre artists, and engage us with our surrounding communities.

The Waa-Mu Show strives to place itself at the forefront of new musical theatre writing, continuing to push the limits of the “greatest college show in America” (Associated Press).

For more information about this year’s production and those involved, visit waamushow.org