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  2. 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 .

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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

  5. Luis Valdez - Wikipedia

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    Valdez's first work that brought him attention to larger audiences was the play Zoot Suit which ran in 1978 at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and played for forty-six weeks to more than 40,000 people. With Zoot Suit, Valdez became the first Chicano director to have a play presented on Broadway in 1979. In 1981, it was made into a film. [16]

  6. L.A. apologizes for city's role in Zoot Suit riots

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  7. Zoot suit - Wikipedia

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    A zoot suit (occasionally spelled zuit suit [1]) is a men's suit with high-waisted, wide-legged, tight-cuffed, pegged trousers, and a long coat with wide lapels and wide padded shoulders. It is most notable for its use as a cultural symbol among the Hepcat and Pachuco subcultures.

  8. Daniel Valdez - Wikipedia

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    [4] [8] [12] In 1997, Valdez served as a musical consultant and a historical expert for the San Diego Repertory Theatre and Southwestern College's revival of Zoot Suit. [4] [8] [12] While he was at Southwestern, Valdez wrote his first original musical, Ollin. [4] [8] In 2000, he appeared in the musical, Selena Forever.

  9. 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