“Max and Willy's Last Laugh includes the actual comedy sketches, songs, and jokes written and performed by Max and Willy in the camp and discovered only 4 years ago in a forgotten manuscript smuggled out of Westerbork in 1943.”

-Broadway World

Ten Minute Documentary

Max and Willy’s Last Laugh

A Musical Written

by Jake Broder and Conor Duffy

Tony Nominated Director, Sheryl Kaller

Emmy and Grammy Winning, Music Director, John McDaniel

Scenic Designer, Takeshi Kata

Three years of research and script development

Produced by Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills and The Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music

Max Ehrlich
Willy Rosen
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Westerbork Players "Small Package"
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When two of the biggest German cabaret stars arrived at a Nazi transit camp in 1942, the star-struck commandant said, “A train leaves here for Auschwitz every Tuesday morning. If you do a cabaret performance on Monday nights, it will lift morale. And if you’re funny, you won’t have to get on the train!” So they were funny. For a more than a year, they performed the funniest cabaret in Europe.
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Until they didn’t.​

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“For the first time in almost 80 years, an audience will experience the very sketches and songs the Westerbork captives themselves experienced when they packed that great hall every Monday night, desperate for a laugh.”

-Broadway World

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