Excerpt from the Emmy Award Winning Film
RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE:
The Making of a Western Opera
A gunslinger empowers a woman rancher... Set in a towering, epic landscape, Zane Grey’s intimate story of faith and fundamentalism resonates around the world.
" Monumental and well-crafted... Riders is literally and figuratively blazing new trails... in a dynamic and memorable production.
— Broadway World ”
SOULSKIN Dance returns... set to Bohmler's music!
SOULSKIN Dance's: Blue Eclipse
Music by Craig Bohmler
This Multi-Media Dance piece features NYC Dancers Itzkan Barbosa and Federico Garcia & combines the gorgeous film of Jaco Stydom with Craig Bohmler's Nuanced Composition.
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MOUNTAIN DAYS-THE STORY OF JOHN MUIR
Opened with the California Symphony and a cast of 60. Because of its success, the city of Martinez, CA undertook to build an amphitheater so that this show could be an annual summer event. The passionate, turbulent, glorious life of John Muir is told on stage, with an emphasis on music, from his youth in Scotland and Wisconsin, to his famous 1,000 mile walk down the Eastern seaboard, to his arrival at the bustling wharfs of San Francisco in 1868, to his travels in Yosemite and his persistent efforts to protect Yosemite and the glorious Hetch Hetchy Valley from destruction.
Music by Craig Bohmler, Book and Lyrics by Mary Bracken Phillips
GUNMETAL BLUES
The recipient of both an ASCAP award, and a Dramatist’s Guild Award, it was workshopped at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center & Stratford Festival. Since its premiere, it has had over 300 production across the US and Canada.
Gunmetal Blues is a hard-boiled detective tale disguised as a lounge act – or the other way around? A private eye searches for a missing blonde through a double-dealing world of smoky bars and rain-slicked streets, luring the audience to an unnamed city of mystery, music, and demolished dreams.
Craig Bohmler-Music , Scott Wentworth-book, Marion Adler-lyrics
Plus songs from his other musicals...
SACAGAWEA
Tells the Lewis and Clark story and their Corps of Discovery as they traverse the Oregon Territory with their unlikely guide and translator – a 16 year old Indian woman.
THE HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER
A ghost story about Sarah Winchester (of the Winchester rifle company)and her mysterious haunted house in San Jose, CA.
ALL THE MORE TO LOVE
The name of a store in the Bay Area that caters to plus-sized women and drag queens.
GRETEL AND HANSEL
A Pantomime in the style of the old British Pantos where animals can talk and a familiar fairy tale is turned upside down.
THE QUILTMAKER’S GIFT
Based on the best selling children’s book about a greedy king and kindly old Quiltmaker who teaches him the true meaning of giving.
A BEAUTIFUL PLACE
The story of artist Friedl Dicker Brandeis how she used art to heal and inspire the children of the Terezin concentration camp.
THE BOOB SHOW
Following an unexpected diagnosis of breast cancer, this one woman show features a comic and sometimes serious look at the perception of breasts
HAPPY TEXAS
My most recent show is based on the 1999 movie with Steve Zahn about two unlikely convicts who change a town and find love.
SONGS OF STONE
A song cycle originally for soprano and orchestra and is an improvisation on what statues might say if they came to life.