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  2. Zoot Suit (play) - Wikipedia

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    Zoot Suit is a play written by Luis Valdez, featuring incidental music by Daniel Valdez and Lalo Guerrero. Zoot Suit is based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Zoot Suit Riots. Debuting in 1979, Zoot Suit was the first Chicano play on Broadway. In 1981, Luis Valdez also directed a filmed version of the play, combining stage and film ...

  3. Luis Valdez - Wikipedia

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    Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play Zoot Suit, his movie La Bamba, and his creation of El Teatro Campesino.

  4. Lupe Ontiveros - Wikipedia

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    In 1978, Ontiveros was cast as Dolores in Luis Valdez's historic play Zoot Suit in her first major theatrical role. Ontiveros went on to reprise the role on Broadway—it was the first Mexican American theatrical production ever to play there—and in the 1982 film version. Ontiveros was also a founding member of the Latino Theater Company. [13 ...

  5. By exploring L.A.'s racial injustice, Luis Valdez's 'Zoot ...

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    'Zoot Suit' is by far the most influential play by a Chicano writer, and the only one to reach Broadway. It changed Los Angeles' historical memory and the American theater forever

  6. Zoot Suit (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A zoot suit is a style of clothing first popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Zoot suit may also refer to: Zoot Suit, a 1979 Broadway play by Luis Valdez Zoot Suit, a 1981 filmed version of the play "Zoot Suit" (song), a 1964 song by the High Numbers, an alternate name for the Who

  7. El Teatro Campesino - Wikipedia

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    El Teatro Campesino (Spanish for "The Farmworker's Theater") is a Chicano theatre company in California.Performing in both English and Spanish, El Teatro Campesino was founded in 1965 as the cultural arm of the United Farm Workers and the Chicano Movement with the "full support of César Chávez."

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  9. Zoot Suit (film) - Wikipedia

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    Zoot Suit is a 1981 American independent [3] [4] drama musical film of the Broadway play Zoot Suit. Both the play and film were written and directed by Luis Valdez . The film stars Daniel Valdez , Edward James Olmos —both reprising their roles from the stage production—and Tyne Daly .