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15 Facts About Craig Bohmler

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Craig Bohmler was born on April 7,1956 and is an American composer who specializes in opera and musical theater.

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Craig Bohmler's musicals include Gunmetal Blues, which has had well over 100 professional productions; Enter the Guardsman, which won the international Musical of the Year award and received an Olivier Award nomination; and Mountain Days, celebrating the life of John Muir.

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Craig Bohmler's operas include Riders of the Purple Sage, an adaptation of Zane Grey's book of the same title which was broadcast nationwide in November 2017 and internationally in 2018.

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4.

Craig Bohmler started piano lessons at the age of six, and began composing music as a teenager.

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Craig Bohmler graduated from Dickinson High School in Dickinson, Texas in 1974.

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Craig Bohmler attended the University of North Texas's College of Music, graduating in 1978 with a Bachelor of Music degree.

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From 1981 through 1984, Craig Bohmler was both a pianist and, beginning as an apprentice, vocal coach at the Houston Opera Studio of the Houston Grand Opera.

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Craig Bohmler's first opera, The Harlot and the Monk, was staged at Banff in February 1985; it is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by James Howley, based on an 8th-century Indian play.

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Craig Bohmler's next production was a musical, Enter the Guardsman, another collaboration with lyricist Marion Adler and book writer Scott Wentworth.

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Craig Bohmler premiered it in November–December 1999 at the Montgomery Theater in San Jose.

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11.

Shakespeare Santa Cruz's annual Winter Holiday season, Craig Bohmler composed the music for playwright and lyricist Kate Hawley's Gretel and Hansel, a musical comedy written in the style of a British pantomime.

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12.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Craig Bohmler re-teamed with lyricist Marion Adler for How to Create a Musical, with a book by Marc Jacobs.

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Craig Bohmler re-teamed with Marion Adler and Marc Jacobs for All the More to Love, commissioned by the Laguna Playhouse.

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14.

Craig Bohmler convinced his musical lyricist Steven Mark Kohn to write the libretto, and garnered a close collaboration with, and a commission from, Arizona Opera.

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15.

Craig Bohmler has been based in the Phoenix, Arizona area since 1988.

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