Thinking of going clubbing tonight? Maybe you should check out the 76th annual Waa-Mu show The Club.

A song and dance revue that loosely follows the comings and goings at a dance club on the final night before a wrecking ball is scheduled to smash the building, each song in The Club offers a self-contained story, most of which focus on those time-tested and ever-intriguing club ingredients: sex and alcohol.

The most impressive thing about The Club is that the entire show, script, music and lyrics are written by current Northwestern students. These writers and composers have been creating, collaborating, revising and revising again all year long, and now their work has come to life in the form of 24 original numbers. This year, students also choreographed most of the show’s intensive dance pieces. In his director’s note, faculty director Dominic Missimi wrote that, “There is little doubt that The Club is the most ‘student-driven’ show in Waa-Mu history.”

However, if supporting budding artists doesn’t give you satisfaction, you may discover that The Club struggles to justify the ticket price – $11 for students and up to $27 for adults.

The music is very enjoyable, especially for students. While some of the elderly crowd was left grumbling over the show’s sexier numbers, the younger viewers were unconcerned and also got a particular kick out of songs like “Better on Facebook” and “The I <3 U Song” with its crowning lyrics, “Baby, more than anything, I want to text you on the dance floor.”

Since the numbers were composed by over a dozen different students, the style varies from piece to piece, so regardless of whether you like hip-hop, country, or even opera, there is something for you. Unfortunately there are only so many variations of the theme of one college kid wanting to get with that other college kid at the club, and The Club exhausts all of them. Understandably, the songs have to fit within the show’s theme, but after a while, the scenarios stop being compelling. Some students may also find it dull to spend two hours watching people portray themselves as exclusively interested in getting drunk and laid.

So if you get bored with the music and mini-plots, just look at the show’s visual side. Watching the dancing snap from a bunch of crazy kids in a club into a tight formation of salsa, jazz or tap dancers was pretty cool because the cast is obviously a talented, versatile and dedicated group.

The show’s crew should also be recognized for providing The Club with an attractive set and some beautiful costumes. The audience oohed the first time the curtain went up, and the detailed and diverse outfits added pizzazz and polish to the dance numbers.

One of the performance’s best moments came in the second-to-last song, “What Happens Now,” when the Waa-Mu seniors put on their NU purple and sang about their upcoming graduation. It was too sincere to resist.

If you’ve got some spare money this weekend and you want to support your creative peers, head on out to The Club this weekend, which is playing Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. at Cahn Auditorium.