Wallenberg, an epic musical drama with book and lyrics by the 2006 Kleban Award-winning team of Laurence Holzman & Felicia Needleman, and music by Benjamin Rosenbluth, brings to life the fascinating and uplifting story of Raoul Wallenberg, one of the greatest heroes of the twentieth century. In July 1944, the 32-year-old Wallenberg, an ordinary businessman from Stockholm, left the safety of neutral Sweden and went into Nazi-occupied Hungary. In a six-month stay there, he managed to save over 100,000 lives--more than were rescued by any other individual, organization or government during the entire Holocaust. With an exhilarating and richly melodic score, this powerful new musical reinforces the belief that any one of us has the power to make a difference.

Wallenberg had its premiere public presentation in March 2004 in the First Draft Musicals reading series at Symphony Space in NYC. In January 2005, another reading was presented at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Mr. Wallenberg's mysterious disappearance. In Spetember 2006, a staged reading played to full houses at New World Stages as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The show will be receiving its world premiere production at the White Plains Performing Arts Center in October 2010.