His operas include Riders of the Purple Sage (2017), an adaptation of Zane Grey's book of the same title which was broadcast nationwide in November 2017 and internationally in 2018.
[4][13][8] Via a phone call by Carlisle Floyd, the musical was workshopped in 1989 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.
[31][32][33] Bohmler's next production was a musical, Enter the Guardsman, another collaboration with lyricist Marion Adler and book writer Scott Wentworth.
[7][34] Prior to being fully produced, Enter the Guardsman won the first-ever international Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark in 1996.
[48] Afterwards, the Willows Theatre Company constructed an outdoor waterfront amphitheater in Muir's adult hometown Martinez, California to house the musical as an annual event.
[50][51][52] The music for the lively piece features styles ranging from ragtime to hip-hop, musical-theatre, and Kurt Weill.
[61][62][63] Bohmler and Kohn wrote another children's musical for Phoenix Theatre, Unstoppable Me!, based on a 2006 book of the same title by Wayne Dyer, adapted for the stage by Michael Barnard and Vincent VanVleet; the piece premiered in 2011.
[69][70] The San Jose Repertory Theatre commissioned a locally based musical from Bohmler and Mary Bracken Phillips for its 25th anniversary season.
[81][80] Bohmler re-teamed with Marion Adler (lyrics) and Marc Jacobs (book) for All the More to Love, commissioned by the Laguna Playhouse.
[85][65][86] He convinced his musical lyricist Steven Mark Kohn to write the libretto, and garnered a close collaboration with, and a commission from, Arizona Opera.
[85][87][65] Riders of the Purple Sage had its world premiere by Arizona Opera, in February 2017 in Tucson and March 2017 in Phoenix.