John Treacy Egan (born July 10, 1962) is an American actor and singer known for starring in the Broadway productions of The Producers and The Little Mermaid.
Egan first appeared off-Broadway in When Pigs Fly at the Douglas Fairbanks Theater in 1996.[1] In 1997 Egan made his Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde, playing the roles of Groom and Mike while understudying Utterson, Glossop, and the Bishop.[2] He is also in the film version Broadway Television Networks/Atlantic Recordings.[3]
In 2001, Egan was in the Off-Broadway show Bat Boy: The Musical.[4] Also in 2001, Egan appeared as Hortensio in Kiss Me, Kate at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles.[5] Egan then starred in the musical The Producers. He played Franz Liebkind from May 2002 to April 2003 and then took over the role of Roger De Bris from April to October. He returned to the show a year later, playing Max Bialystock for one week in December 2004.[2]
On November 1, 2005, he officially took over the role of Max,[6] and he played the role through the end of the Broadway run in 2007 (except for a break of several months in 2006, in which sitcom star Tony Danza assumed the role). He is currently the only actor to have played three principal roles in the musical. Egan was also in the 2005 film The Producers with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, as First Nighter. Egan appeared with Josh Groban in the Actors Fund Benefit Concert of Chess on September 22, 2003, at the New Amsterdam Theatre.
^Phillips, Michael (August 27, 2001). "Not Just Another Op'nin'". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 5, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2011.
