Zoot Suit

"Zoot Suit" is a 1981 biographical and historical musical directed by Luis Valdez. Its historical embodiment tells a recreated story of the inception point for the Zoot Suit Riots, more specifically an event intitled the Sleepy Lagoon Murder that saw a grouping of young…

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

I think about the Marihuana Boogie everyday

Jonathan 🐼

Luis Valdez’s play Zoot Suit has always been successful when produced in Los Angeles, but it doesn’t always travel well. Its Broadway run lasted just over a month — 41 performances — though Edward James Olmos got a Tony nomination for his supporting turn. Even critics who…

Quiller

Before hitting it big with La Bamba, Luis Valdez was paying his dues as a guerilla theater orchestrator and traveling the dusty fields of California with the United Farm Workers. A consummate theater guy, Zoot Suit was an established Broadway play before he filmed a version…

Herb Gallow

had to watch this for class but it’s now my fight club

graciaswoas

1981 In Review - October #2 Mexican-American gangster Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez) and others in his group are accused of a murder in which they had no part. They are then rounded up by the police because of their race and their choice of clothing. The gang members are…

Michael501 📺

I am wondering whether I have seen a musical quite like this before - one in which the songs and production numbers are mainly a vessel for anger rather than joy, for communicating the outrage at the systemic racism its main character is facing. And it works amazingly…

Christof

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hailey

The Press distorted the very meaning of the word "Zoot Suit." All it is for you guys is another way to say MexicanThis validates my chicano identity by one key aspect, it’s that I also carry a stiletto style switchblade on me. The direction here is translated from a stage…

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