Some musicals are remembered for their songs. Fiddler on the Roof is remembered for the feeling that an entire village has walked onto the stage.
That village comes to the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts tomorrow, Friday, June 26, when Thingamajig Theatre Company opens ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ the third and final mainstage opening weekend of its 2026 summer repertory season. The production follows earlier openings of Come From Away and Stephen Sondheim’s Company, completing a summer lineup built around community, family, memory, and change.
Set in the village of Anatevka in Imperial Russia, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ follows Tevye, a dairyman whose devotion to faith, tradition, and family is tested as his daughters begin choosing lives he could not have imagined for them. The musical moves from comedy to tenderness with songs including “Tradition,” “If I Were a Rich Man,” “Matchmaker,” and “Sunrise, Sunset.”
Based on the stories of Sholem Aleichem, with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, ‘Fiddler’ opened on Broadway in 1964 and won nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Since then, it has become one of the defining works of musical theatre, performed around the world for more than six decades.
“The reason people keep coming back to Fiddler is simple,” said Tim Moore, Producing Artistic Director of Thingamajig Theatre Company, who also stars as Tevye. “Underneath the famous songs and the humor is a family trying to figure things out. Tevye wants what’s best for his daughters. His daughters want lives of their own. Nobody is wrong, but everybody is changing. Every parent and every child understands that.”
Directed and choreographed by Pia Wyatt, the production brings together professional performers from across the country and familiar local artists for one of Broadway’s landmark musicals.
For Moore, playing Tevye also brings him into the center of a story that has spoken to audiences across generations.
“What I love about Tevye is that he is not a museum piece,” Moore said. “He is funny, stubborn, loving, flawed, and trying very hard to keep his family safe in a world that keeps shifting under his feet. That feels very alive to me.”
With the opening of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, Thingamajig Theatre Company reaches the final opening weekend of its 2026 summer repertory season. After Fiddler, the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts will turn its attention to the next generation of performers through its annual Children’s Theatre Camp, which will culminate in July performances of Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book KIDS’.
Tickets for Fiddler on the Roof are available at pagosacenter.org or by calling the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts box office at 970-731-SHOW (7469).