Eric McCormack Joins Producing Team of London Bound WILD ABOUT YOU

The new musical Wild About You is welcoming star of stage and screen, Eric McCormack (Will & Grace, The Cottage), as a co-producer as it prepares for a first developmental production in London in January 2027.

Wild About You is a new musical with music and lyrics by Chilina Kennedy (The Great Gatsby, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), a book by Dani Stoller (Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes), music supervision, music direction, arrangements and orchestrations by Daniel Edmonds (The Great Gatsby, Shucked), and direction by Kristin Hanggi (Rock of Ages, Romy and Michele: The Musical). Keaka Productions' Brian Spector (The Hills of California) is producing.

Originally developed at Eclipse Theatre Company and NY Theatre Barn, Wild About You held an industry presentation in New York City in March 2023, after which the music was released as a World Premiere Recording under the Center Stage Records label featuring A-list Broadway talent such as Lea Salonga, Alex Newell, Katharine McPhee and more. This was followed in September 2024 with a Deluxe Edition with new songs by Eric McCormack, Ashley Loren and Troy Iwata.

After the initial album release, the show headed to London’s West End for a sold out, two-night concert series at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. After further revisions and book development, the team returned to London this October to be featured at Musical Con 2025. West End’s Cassidy Janson (&Juliet, Avenue Q) and Dean John-Wilson (Aladdin, Britain’s Got Talent) performed songs from the show and audiences were treated to a special surprise performance from the composer herself (Kennedy). Now following a spring 2026 industry presentation, the team is preparing for its first developmental production in London in January 2027.

ABOUT Eric McCormack

Toronto native Eric McCormack got his start acting in theatres across Canada, including five seasons with the Stratford Festival, eventually starring on Broadway in Tony-nominated productions of The Music Man and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man and in The Cottage, directed by Jason Alexander. Best known for his 11 seasons as Will Truman on NBC’s Will & Grace, McCormack was nominated for four Emmy Awards and six Golden Globes, receiving the Emmy for Lead Actor in a Comedy in 2001. He served as a producer, director and lead actor on three seasons of the Netflix sleeper hit Travelers and for three seasons of Perception for TNT.  Other series include Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years, Atypical, Slasher, and Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue. Films include Holy Man, The Architect, Free Enterprise and the award-winning Canadian comedy, Drinkwater.  He has been honored with a star on Canada’s Walk of Fame and on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Eric made his West End debut in the two-night concert presentation of Wild About You, and is delighted to join the producing team with Brian Spector and with his Canadian pal, Chilina Kennedy.

WILD ABOUT YOU

The musical, set to a pop-folk score, follows Billy, a young man feeling at odds with what his future holds before it has even begun, on the day of his high school graduation party. Billy finds a trunk of letters written to him by his late mother, whom he’d been told had abandoned him as a child. The discovery sets Billy and his Best Friend off on a journey to uncover the truth about his lineage, his past, and his connection to a woman he never knew, but who might just be the key to understanding the ceaseless and indefinable longing that exists within his heart.