Kay Medford high school and working as a nightclub waitress. She was the original "Mama" in "Bye Bye Birdie" on Broadway, garnering excellent reviews, but lost the film role to Maureen Stapleton. Medford appeared in the Warner Bros. rock and roll film, "Jamboree" (1957). She made her Broadway debut in 1951 in the musical "Paint Your Wagon". She was cast in "Carousel" before she appeared onstage in "Funny Girl" as the mother of Fanny Brice (played by Barbra Streisand); for this performance she was nominated for a 1964 Tony Award for Featured Actress (Musical), and when she repeated the role in the
Funny Girl (Laura Rizzotto song) Funny Girl (Laura Rizzotto song) "Funny Girl" is a song written and performed by Latvian-Brazilian singer Laura Rizzotto. The song was released as a digital download on 6 December 2017. It represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. In December 2017, Rizzotto was announced as one of the competitors in "Supernova 2018", the Latvian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018, with the song "Funny Girl". The song advanced to the televised rounds after being selected from both an online vote and live audition. Rizzotto competed in the third semi-final on 17 February 2018, and