Broadway’s Timothy Hughes on baring it all for charity, standing out in a crowd, and Sondheim dream roles
view-obstructing gown at the Oscars made social media meme fodder last month — it’s tough to miss Timothy Hughes on stage. At six feet, seven inches, and with chiseled good looks, he surpasses six-foot-six Broadway legend Tommy Tune by an inch and is probably the most physically towering presence on the New York stage these days.But Hughes is much more than his height.
His dancing chops and baritone landed him in the ensemble of the original cast of Hadestown, where he also covered the role of Hades.
Movie musical fans west of the Hudson River might remember him on-screen turn as the Strongman in The Greatest Showman. And, while in the cast of Frozen, Hughes made national headlines for grabbing a “Trump 2020” flag from an unruly audience member in the front row who attempted to upstage the family musical’s curtain call.“I will not apologize for how I responded to the disrespectful man trying to interrupt this moment with a pathetic political platform,” Hughes posted on social media. “Not at our show!
Not in front of my beautiful, diverse, talented cast.”These days, Hughes is ripping into meat pies eight times a week in the Broadway smash revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street starring Annaleigh Ashford and Josh Groban.
