Photo: Samantha Luck as Hodel and Trevor Brown as Perchik in Thingamajig Theatre Company’s Fiddler on the Roof, one of three productions now playing in repertory at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts. Photo by Justin Treptow.
Thingamajig Theatre Company’s 2026 summer repertory season is now fully underway at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts, with all three mainstage musicals open and rotating throughout the summer. Audiences can now see Come From Away, Company and Fiddler on the Roof, three productions that differ widely in setting, musical style and temperament, but share an interest in the ways people hold onto one another when the world around them begins to change.
The three-show repertory format has become a defining part of Thingamajig’s summer season. Rather than producing one musical at a time, the resident company rehearses and performs several productions simultaneously. An actor may spend one evening portraying a stranded airline passenger or Newfoundland resident in Come From Away, return the next night as a sophisticated New Yorker in Company, and step into the village of Anatevka for Fiddler on the Roof before the week is over. Musicians, designers, technicians and stage managers make the same journey, transforming the theatre from one world to another throughout the week. That constant reinvention is one of the pleasures of repertory theatre, allowing audiences to see the full range of a company’s work over the course of several performances.
Come From Away tells the true story of nearly 7,000 airline passengers diverted to Newfoundland after American airspace closed on September 11, 2001. The musical focuses not only on the scale of that extraordinary event, but on the individual acts of hospitality that followed as residents opened their homes, schools and community buildings to strangers from around the world.
Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company moves the season to Manhattan, where perpetual bachelor Bobby navigates a series of encounters with his married friends and confronts questions about love, friendship, independence and commitment.
Completing the repertory is Fiddler on the Roof, the beloved musical about Tevye, his family and the people of Anatevka. As Tevye’s daughters begin making choices that challenge long-held customs, the entire village faces growing pressure from the world beyond its borders.
Together, the three productions offer a broad look at what musical theatre can accomplish. One begins with an international crisis, one with a birthday celebration and one with a milkman speaking directly to God. Each finds humor in circumstances that are anything but simple, and each asks how people remain connected when familiar assumptions about home, family and community begin to shift. Audiences have the opportunity to experience all three productions throughout the remainder of the summer, often within the span of only a few days.
While the professional company has been preparing and opening the repertory productions, the theatre’s youngest performers have also had a busy summer. Disney’s The Jungle Book KIDS recently completed its performances at the Center, and the production was a tremendous success. Young performers brought the familiar story to life for enthusiastic audiences, filling the theatre with music, movement and energy. Thingamajig Theatre Company is deeply grateful to the families, teachers, volunteers and audience members who supported the students and helped make the experience so memorable. For many of the children, this was an early opportunity to perform in a professional theatre setting, and the strong community response showed them that their preparation and hard work mattered.
With the youth production completed and all three professional musicals now running, Thingamajig is preparing for its next major summer event. The Annual Broadway Gala will take place July 28, but this year the company is completely reimagining the familiar format. Instead of an evening built around individual songs, speeches and theatrical selections, the company will present a secret fourth show. The title will not be announced in advance. Guests will arrive knowing they are about to see another theatrical production, but its identity will remain hidden until the evening begins.
The new format places discovery at the center of the gala experience. Most audiences enter a theatre already knowing the title, the basic story and perhaps many of the songs they are about to hear. This year’s Broadway Gala asks guests to arrive with curiosity, trust the company and allow the evening to reveal itself. The event will retain the celebratory spirit of the annual gala while making the performance itself the heart of the occasion. Proceeds will support Thingamajig Theatre Company’s professional productions, educational programs and year-round artistic work at the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
With Come From Away, Company and Fiddler on the Roof now rotating on the mainstage, a successful youth production just completed and a fourth title waiting to be revealed, Thingamajig’s summer season has reached its busiest stretch. Tickets and performance information are available at pagosacenter.org or by calling 970.731.SHOW (7469).