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Italian critics. She had the greatest theater success with the musical "S ljubavlju, Janis" which premiered on 25 October 2008. The Musical was written according to an autobiographical book published in 1992 by Laura Joplin, Janis Joplin's sister, based on letters that Janis wrote regularly to her family, according to which Randall Myler wrote the Broadway hit.
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composed of theater enthusiasts and talented actors at the Moša Pijade
University in Zagreb. They produced the comedy "Obljetnica braka" in which Kovačiček and Zidarić played the main characters. In 1997, she once again got the opportunity to show her talent as an actress and imitator in her one-hour show on
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Slovene's permanent audience in Trieste in 2002 as the main character in the rock opera "Princess of Grain Beans" . For her performance, she received many praises from the Slovenian,
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Miljenko Prohaska. She made over 200 performances. From 1984 onward, she attended Marija Kohn's acting classes and later of Krešimir Zidarić in the Theater Bagatela. Delighted with Kovačiček's acting talent, Zidarić founded an acting group
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