Backstage Pass: Ep. 9 - Sandra Joseph & Ron Bohmer: Broadway Edu-tainment

Sandra Joseph & Ron Bohmer bio

Sandra Joseph and Ron Bohmer have been called “Broadway royalty” and “a real-life fairytale romance.” As a 20+ year married couple who have worked together for decades, they will be the first to tell you that personal and professional partnership is no fairytale. Through keynotes, concerts, and fireside chats, these two showstoppers invite you to peek behind the curtain as they share moving, inspiring, and often hilarious stories AND SONGS from their celebrated careers and lives on and off stage. In this masterful “inspir-tainment,” these two world-class performers speak and sing about overcoming obstacles, dropping the “mask”, and practicing presence over perfection.

Sandra and Ron met on the stage of the Kennedy Center Opera House just moments before stepping into their roles as the Phantom and Christine. They fell in love both on and off the stage in 1997. Nearly three decades later, their story has transcended Broadway stages and concert halls worldwide into a 20+ year marriage and professional partnership.

Sandra holds the record as the longest-running leading lady in Broadway’s longest-running show. For 10 years and more than 1,500 performances, she starred as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera. She is the bestselling author of Unmasking What Matters: 10 Life Lessons from 10 Years on Broadway and the co-author of Your Creative Soul: Expressing Your Authentic Voice with 5-time New York Times bestselling author, Caroline Myss.

Media appearances (to name a few):

• The Today Show

• CNN

• The View

• The Oprah Winfrey Show

• Oprah: Where Are They Now?”

Oprah has called Sandra “a Broadway legend and an inspiration.”

Ron is one of Broadway’s most accomplished leading men, having starred in over a dozen Broadway productions in a career spanning three decades.

Starring roles (to name a few):

• The Phantom in The Phantom Of The Opera

• Joseph Smith and Jesus in the mega-hit The Book of Mormon

• Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (Jefferson Award nomination)

• Alex in Aspects Of Love (LA Robby award)

• Enjolras in Les Miserables

• Coach Bolton in Disney’s High School Musical

• The title role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (National Broadway Theatre Award nomination)

• Father in the Tony-nominated revival of Ragtime

• Frid in the Tony-nominated revival of A Little Night Music with Bernadette Peters.

Ron has appeared as a concert soloist with symphony orchestras worldwide including Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and New York City’s Town Hall. As a singer/songwriter, Ron has recorded three solo albums including his latest release, Legacy.

Together, Sandra and Ron leave audiences moved, entertained, exhilarated, and maybe even a little more in love.

Show notes

In this episode of Backstage Pass, we’re joined by Sandra Joseph & Ron Bohmer. Often referred to as Broadway royalty, this couple fell in love both on and off stage in 1997. They’ve been married for over 20 years and have formed a beautiful business partnership. The speaking events they do together are often about overcoming fear and rejection, following your heart, and the importance of dropping your mask and being your authentic self.

Key topics in this episode include:

• The role that made Sandra the longest leading lady on the longest running play.

• A gift that helped Sandra keep her edge after a decade into performing.

• How a shift in underlying motivations can recharge you.

• Why it’s important to be who you are, flaws and all.

• Why Sandra said she’s the least likely Broadway star you’d ever meet.

• How being vulnerable can actually help you achieve your dreams.

• What made Ron and Sandra’s first conversation unique.

• The pressure people feel to show up a certain way and how it burdens them.

• How having a deep dive with a client before a speaking event improves the event.

• Sandra’s motivation for becoming an author and speaker.

• How a theater background has equipped them to make events especially engaging.

• The role their daughter landed and how it’s been a bonding experience for their family.

• How Ron and Sandra give back to the community and why they are passionate about it.

• Their favorite parts of what they do and why their audience gets lit up from them.