Funny Lady (soundtrack) Lucky Can You Get" being a bonus track. Due to her contract with Ray Stark, Streisand was required to reprise her role as Fanny Brice in the sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968), which became "Funny Lady". Accompanying the 1975 film was the official soundtrack and one of the first records to be released by Arista Records, a new label created by record producer Clive Davis. Davis later revealed in his autobiographical book, "The Soundtrack of My Life", that Streisand was the perfect singer for the soundtrack as she was "the top female singer-actress in the world" and would likely be
Funny Girl (musical) directed by Bartlett Sher had been announced to premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles in January 2012 with Lauren Ambrose starring as Fanny Brice and Bobby Cannavale as Nicky Arnstein, and then open on Broadway in April 2012. However, on November 3, 2011, producer Bob Boyett announced that this production has been postponed. He said "We have made the extremely difficult decision today to postpone our production of "Funny Girl". Given the current economic climate, many Broadway producing investors have found it impossible to maintain their standard level of financial commitment." In 2014, the musical was reimagined in