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Shaken Not Stirred - Loli Marquez SterlingRIE Y LLORA
BABAJI
COMPLAINTE DE LA BUTTE
ALCOHOL
JUST A HOUSEWIFE (JUST A SUPER)
PUT 'EM IN A BOX, TIE 'EM WITH RIBBON
DO YOU LIKE IT
DAVID (DWAYNIE)
A DREAM IS A WISH YOUR HEART MAKES
BAILA CHA CHA CHA C'MON
INCREDIBLY DRUNK ON WHISKEY
IN THESE SHOES?
YO VIVIRE



 

Shaken Not Stirred

   Loli's has been involved in the performing arts business for the past 20 years, which has taken her down different venues of the theatre world. Her namesake her Tia Lolita, was a great opera singer from Havana, Cuba. Loli began to follow in her footsteps beginning her studies studying Voice/Opera at Peabody Conservatory of Music. Her first professional NYC job was in 1991 singing in Grammy winner Phillips Springer's Requiem for an Artist, where she was a featured soloist. Stage and musical theatre productions have dominated most of Loli’s career performing in productions and touring companies of Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Man of La Mancha, Annie, Sound of Music and a Chorus Line.
   The summer of 2002 Loli was involved in NYC's Fringe Festival, where she played Adolfina in Reynaldo Arenas play The Palace of the White Skunk. Loli also had the honor of sharing the stage with the late Irene Worth in a Library of Congress musical Production of Oscar Wildes, After the Ball and with Marnie Nixon in Verrisimo Opera Company’s A Christmas Carol.
   In 1996 Loli auditioned for Franco Zeffirelli’s premier production of Carmen and soon became a full time Supernumerary at The Metropolitan Opera Company. She has been directed by Stephen Wadsworth, Otto Schenk, Francesca Zambello and recently was directed by Bartlett Sher in The METS 2008 production of the Barber of Seville.
   She was invited in October 2009 to BADEN-BADEN, Germany where she spent the Fall performing the Barber of Seville at The Festspiel Opera House. She attended the Cabaret Symposium in 1998 where she was enlightened even more to the art of Cabaret.
   In 1999 Loli performed her show Those Dog Years, At Don't Tell Mama's receiving great reviews. The show was nominated for a Manhattan Association of Cabaret award for Outstanding Female Debut 2000. Followed by her successful show Those Dog Years, Loli opened the Loli but not Alone show in April of 2002 and was rewarded with wonderful reviews.
   She was nominated for a second MAC award for Outstanding Comedy Female award. The summer of 2003 Loli but not Alone show moved South Miami Beach's Tropigala Club, where she garnered great reviews and much attention for her show. She performed on well-known TV shows as, Telemundos, Sabado Gigante, El Mikimbim Show and Don Fernando's Variety Hour Show. She also opened the famous downtown Miami's Calle Ocho's summer celebration Viernes Culturales with her “Loli but not Alone show”.
   All summer long you could hear her CD played on Programs like, WQBA and WAXY . Loli's unique and original shows, influenced by her Cuban history have entertained the corporate world and audiences from the Rainbow Room in NYC to the Ritz Carlton in Laguna Beach, California. She’s crossed the Atlantic twice and was received with great excitement by the Italians where she made her mark at the well known jazz club, The Fonclea, in Rome, Italy with her Loli Senza Corriente show.
   Loli's CD "Loli but not Alone", came out in 2004, has garnered great reviews and was nominated by The Siegels NYC, Theater Mania for Outstanding CD of the month in April 2004. In April 2009, Loli returned to the Cabaret world with the dynamite show, Shaken but not Stirred, at The Metropolitan Room, her sold out shows continue to charm the public and has received fantastic reviews.