--- title: Frozen Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands description: A performance of Frozen on Broadway turned heated when one of the show's actors ripped a pro-Trump flag out of an audience member's hands. canonical: https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-06T16:49:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:42.401Z og:title: 'Frozen' Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands og:description: "Not at our show!" og:url: https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad2cae14f0b93efa/698939948fd2ee104f35c8ed/frozen-broadway-trump-flag.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Frozen" Broadway Opening Night - Curtain Call og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Frozen' Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands twitter:description: "Not at our show!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad2cae14f0b93efa/698939948fd2ee104f35c8ed/frozen-broadway-trump-flag.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Frozen_ on Broadway Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 6, 2018 4:49 PM UTC  Caissie Levy and Patti Murin with cast during the Broadway Musical Opening Night Curtain Call for 'Frozen' at the St. James Theatre on March 22, 2018 in New York City. Caissie Levy and Patti Murin with cast during the Broadway Musical Opening Night Curtain Call for 'Frozen' at the St. James Theatre on March 22, 2018 in New York City.Walter McBride/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 6, 2018 4:49 PM UTC A performance of [_Frozen_ on Broadway](http://time.com/4743174/frozen-broadway-musical-casts-elsa-anna/) turned heated on Wednesday when one of the show’s actors ripped a [pro-Trump](http://time.com/5387876/trump-administration-resistance-op-ed/) flag out of an audience member’s hands. As the cast took bows during the curtain call at the St. James Theatre, Timothy Hughes—who plays Pabbie the troll in the musical adaptation of the Disney film—snatched a banner that read “Trump 2020” from a front-row audience member wearing a “Make America Great Again” visor and threw it backstage. Hughes later took to Instagram to say that he stood behind his decision. “What does it say about our country and politics when a man at the show tonight felt the need to protest Disney’s _Frozen_ on Broadway with a pro Trump flag??” he captioned a video of the incident. “How frightening is it that our show’s messages of love, acceptance, and diversity have become the opposition to supporting Trump? The curtain call is a thank you between actors and audience, a final connection to end a shared experience. I will not apologize for how I responded to the disrespectful man trying to interrupt this moment with a pathetic political platform. Not at our show! Not in front of my beautiful, diverse, talented cast at [@frozenbroadway](https://www.instagram.com/frozenbroadway/). I appreciate everyone’s support.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/"},"headline":"Frozen on Broadway Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands","datePublished":"2018-09-06T16:49:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:42.401Z","description":"\"Not at our show!\"","url":"https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/","keywords":["Newsfeed","politics","broadway","Frozen","Theater"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad2cae14f0b93efa/698939948fd2ee104f35c8ed/frozen-broadway-trump-flag.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltad2cae14f0b93efa/698939948fd2ee104f35c8ed/frozen-broadway-trump-flag.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Frozen\" Broadway Opening Night - Curtain Call","caption":"\"Frozen\" Broadway Opening Night - Curtain Call","creditText":"Walter McBride/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5388817/frozen-broadway-trump-flag/","name":"Frozen on Broadway Actor Rips Trump Flag From Audience Member's Hands"}}]}] ```