Photos courtesy Carole Howard
Friends of Thingamajig Theatre, led by Chris Pike and Joyce Ryan, cooked homemade dinners for the cast and crew of Thingamajig Theatre Company on June 14 on their ‘Tech Tuesday’ rehearsal day, when all the technical elements of the show — lights, sound, props, and sets — come together for the first time.
Becoming a Friend of the Theatre brings you multiple fun interactions with the actors and directors including social gatherings, invitations to behind-the-scenes events, excursions to Williams Lake for water sports in the summer and Wolf Creek for skiing in the winter, and opportunities for one-on-one interactions if you provide rides to and from the Durango airport for traveling artists.
Annual Friends of the Theatre dues of $35 per person can be paid on the theatre’s website at pagosacenter.org.
This summer’s season features three award-winning Broadway musicals in rotation at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
This summer’s shows are: “Bright Star,” with the bluegrass score composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, “Guys and Dolls,” a romantic comedy involving a high-rolling gambler and a strait-laced missionary, and “SpongeBob the Musical,” a family-friendly show based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. These musicals will run in rotation through most of August.
This year’s fundraising Broadway Gala will take place Tuesday evening, July 26.
Thingamajig Theatre Company was cofounded in 2011 by Tim and Laura Moore. It is an award-winning professional nonprofit 501(c)(3) theatre in residence within the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts. Its talented actors, directors and designers come from across the U.S. and around the world to produce musicals, comedies and dramas year-round. Thingamajig also is dedicated to providing educational opportunities for youth and teens in our community.