Shangri-La Plaza (TV pilot)

Infobox Television
show_name = Shangri-La Plaza


caption =
aka =
genre = Musical comedy
creator =
writer = Nick Castle
Mark Mueller
director = Nick Castle
starring = Melora Hardin
Chris Sarandon
Terrence Mann
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 1
first_run = CBS
first_aired = July 30 1990
last_aired = July 30 1990cite news |title=RHYME SO BAD, IT MAKES US SAD |work=Los Angeles Daily News |date=July 30 1990 ( [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=LA&p_theme=la&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF60CB281C6CB8F&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Newsbank] )] cite news |title=UPBEAT CAST MAKES 'SHANGRI-LA' A TREAT |work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=July 30 1990 |pages=D6 ( [http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PG&p_theme=pg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADE6F948CD114E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Newsbank] )]
imdb_id = 0940764
tv_com_id = "Shangri-La Plaza" was musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. [Imdb title|0940764|Shangri-La Plaza.] It was the first TV show set in a mini-mall.Fact|date=July 2008

The all-sung “Shangri-La Pizza” was directed by Nick Castle and written and created by Mark Mueller and Nick Castle. It starred The Office’s Melora Hardin, Chris Sarandon and Broadway’s original Beast and Javert (of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Les Misérables”) Terrence Mann, a two-time Tony Award Nominee for Best Actor. [ [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=68216 Terrence Mann] . Internet Broadway Database.] It also featured the very young tap dancing phenomenon Savion Glover in one of his first television appearances.

The pilot was filmed on location in an actual mini-mall at the corner of Vineland Avenue and Burbank Boulevard in North Hollywood, California.

The entire episode is now available in three parts on YouTube. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhOa_i12GtY] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNajXNRsRc&feature=related] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtvV7KRICOQ&feature=related]

References

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhOa_i12GtY/link_1 Link 1]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNajXNRsRc&feature=related/link_2 Link 2]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtvV7KRICOQ&feature=related/link_3 Link 3]