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  • Mockumentary about Media
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  • WerdeEinsMitMir
  • Avarice
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Shangri-la-la-LA, a comedy musical

This is the trailer for the comedy musical Shangri-La-La-La

UPCOMING SHOWS

Harrisburg Fringe Festival

  Harrisburg Fringe Festival
Sunday, July 19 — 11:00 AM & 6:20 PM
Gamut Theatre – Select Medical Mainstage
15 N 4th St, Harrisburg, PA 17101
Venue info: https://harrisburg.ssboxoffice.com/events/?

Midtown International Theater Festival NYC

Midtown International Theater Festival — New York City
July 25, 8:00 PM & July 26, 2:00 PM
American Theater of Actors
Show info:   

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/shangri-la-la-a-comedy-musical-about-siegfried-roy-tickets-1989267183696?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

Rogue Theater Festival — New York (Digital)

Rogue Theater Festival — New York (Digital)

Rogue Theater Festival — New York (Digital)

  Digital Rogue Theater Festival — New York
Watch online here: https://cur8.com/17616/project/139957

Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Rogue Theater Festival — New York (Digital)

Rogue Theater Festival — New York (Digital)

  Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Sunday, September 27 — 3:00 PM & 6:00 PM
SideQuest at The Adrienne Theater
2030 Sansom St., Philadelphia, PA 19103
Festival info: https://phillyfringe.org/
SideQuest info: https://www.sidequesttheater.com

About Shangri-La-La

   Shangri-La-La is a fast, funny, irreverent comedy musical about two immigrants who reinvented themselves, transformed Las Vegas, and built a rhinestone empire of magic, ambition, and white tigers. The one-hour festival version follows Siegfried & Roy at Steve Wynn’s Mirage, where they became the dazzling centerpiece of a new, family-friendly era on the Strip. As Las Vegas traded topless revues for tigers, sequins, and spectacle on an epic scale, the pair became global icons—and one of the city’s greatest illusions. Visually playful and sharply comic, Shangri-La-La captures the moment Las Vegas remade itself, and two ambitious performers remade themselves along with it. 

View Shangri-La-La Videos on YouTube

TIGERS, SEQUINS, AND THE MAGIC OF REINVENTION—SHANGRI-LA-LA!

 Do you crave bold musicals, larger-than-life personalities, backstage intrigue, and enough sequins to light up the Las Vegas Strip?

Then step into Shangri-La-La, a fast, funny comedy musical about two immigrants who reinvented themselves, transformed Las Vegas, and built a rhinestone empire of magic, ambition, and white tigers.

At Steve Wynn’s Mirage, Siegfried & Roy became global icons—and the dazzling centerpiece of a new era on the Strip. But behind every great illusion lies another story.

The full-length version draws in part on a real-life lawsuit involving the show’s creator, using courtroom satire to explore what happens when private conflict collides with celebrity mythology, institutional power, and the carefully manufactured illusions of Las Vegas.

SHANGRI-LA-LA
A fabulously theatrical comedy musical about reinvention, spectacle, ambition—and the price of believing in the illusion.

Think:

– Cabaret meets classic Las Vegas spectacle
– Chicago with white tigers
– A backstage comedy where the greatest trick is becoming someone new

Watch the short trailer:
https://youtube.com/shorts/dzInsbcc2RE

Because in Las Vegas, the brightest illusion is often the one we create for ourselves.

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Shangri-La-La (Comedy Musical)

Mike Meier's comedy musical ALL THAT GLITTERS, previews in July 2025 at the Arlington Drafthouse The

The story behind Shangri-La-La seems almost too strange to be true.

This fast, irreverent comedy explores Las Vegas show business, immigrant ambition, celebrity mythology, and the darker realities beneath the spectacle.

Joshua, a young German immigrant, arrives in Las Vegas chasing a dream. When he begins working for the retired Siegfried & Roy, he believes he has entered a world of magic and glamour. Instead, he discovers that not all that glitters is gold.

In the full-length version, his search for answers leads to a courtroom battle inspired by a real-life lawsuit.

The love hex or nicest flings in Mexico (Book&Screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

As the New York City summer of 1929 gives way to autumn, socialite and poet Rose is unhappily married to a mobster lawyer and suffering from early-onset arthritis. Her friend Alice, a recently-widowed mother of three, languishes in her posh home with chronic fatigue. Rose’s doctor recommends a daring cure: a hot-springs treatment in Mexico. Together the women travel to the small town of Tehuacán...and hook up with two young beaus. The days are jolly—that is, right up until Día de los Muertos, when Rose’s jealous husband arrives out of the blue...

JoinWITH.ME (book&screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

In the year 2032, Sam Vanderpool lives a lonely existence with a menial job in an urban dystopia that is impersonal and dominated by technology. Sam is jolted from his routine when an ad appears on his computer screen that takes him to a website called JoinWith.Me. The site offers counseling for the lonely, and Sam decides to log on. He talks to a girl who offers to help him be happier and find a girlfriend. Or so he thinks...

JoinWith.Me is a dystopian thriller that explores timely questions: whether we control technology or it controls us...

The Final Days of doggerland (Book&Screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

Did you know that until about 8,000 years ago, England was connected by land to Northern Europe? We now call that connecting land "Doggerland." “The Final Days of Doggerland” is a Stone Age story, written by Mike Meier. It is beautifully illustrated by the Uruguayan artist Guarazú, Many aspects of the story are based on archeological facts, such as the migration of the Yamnaya people, the disappearance of Doggerland, the use of garlic mustard to spice food, and the arrival of blue-eyed people in Northern Europe from the area of the Black Sea.  

AVARICE (screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

A reporter tries to expose a tech company for developing an algorithm that can manipulate the behavior of online users.

COLLECTIVE SOULS (screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

In a dystopian future run by the Collective Souls - the preserved brains of the best minds - Freya Hume uncovers a secret.

Off to the island! (Screenplay)

Off to the island! (Screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

 Disillusioned by modern society and technology’s oppressive presence, a varied bunch of people buy and then move to an island to begin a new nation—but it doesn’t turn out to be what they’d hoped.

SCANTY & SWANKY (screenplay)

Off to the island! (Screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

In 1979, sixteen-year-old Rudi searches for meaning and direction as he befriends a prostitute, debates following his dreams of being a musician, and gets into increasingly dangerous mischief with the wild and reckless Mario.

WHERE THE ALIENS ARE (screenplay)

WHERE THE ALIENS ARE (screenplay)

Mike Meier, author of The Final Days of Doggerland & The Love Hex or Nicest Flings in Mexico.

In this science fiction comedy, an elderly professor, along with his neighbors, a lesbian couple and their son, set out to save the world from an impending alien invasion.

This is a story about what humans do when space aliens are about to take our planet...

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