"Shangri-La Plaza" is a musical-comedy pilot made for CBS-TV in 1990. The all-sung “Shangri-La Plaza” 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 Terrence Mann, a two-time Tony Award Nominee for Best Actor. 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.
Cast
Terrence Mann
Ira Bondo
Jeff Yagher
George Bondo
Melora Hardin
Amy
Carmen Lundy
Geneva
Bernie Coulson
Noz
Savion Glover
Chili
Allison Mack
Jenny
Hilary Shepard
Veronica
Chris Sarandon
Victorio
Lee Wilkof
Swabodian
Barry Bernal
Chili's Friend #1
Travis Payne
Chili's Friend #2
Don Hanmer
Old Man
Mark David
Customer #1
Victoria Stevens
Customer #2
Glen Chin
Customer #3
Crew
Nick Castle
Director, Writer, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
Mark Mueller
Writer, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
Craig Safan
Writer, Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
Pamela Malouf
Editor
Richard Freeman
Editor
Steven Poster
Director of Photography
Dennis M. White
First Assistant Director
Robin Winter
Second Assistant Director
Mark Horowitz
Co-Producer
Jeremy Railton
Production Design
George Kohut
Camera Operator
Cosmas P. Bolger
Post Production Supervisor
Valorie Massalas
Casting
Allison Cowitt
Casting
Tracy Tynan
Costume Design
Lola Kemp
Makeup & Hair
Timothy A. Miguel
Makeup Artist
Ron Horwitz
Sound Editor
Bruce Bisenz
Production Sound Mixer
Ken Johnson
Music Editor
Greg J. Grande
Set Decoration
Andrea Walzer
Script Supervisor
Michael Peters
Choreographer
Gregg H. Bilson
Property Master
Marty W. Eichmann
Key Grip
James Plannette
Gaffer
Ron Mitchell
Unit Production Manager
Norman S. Powell
Executive In Charge Of Production
Stephen Cragg
Supervising Producer