Fanny Brice delete several production numbers closely associated with the star. The 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon "Quentin Quail" features a character based on Brice's characterization of Baby Snooks. Barbra Streisand starred as Brice in the 1964 Broadway musical "Funny Girl", which centered on Brice's rise to fame and troubled relationship with Arnstein. In 1968, Streisand won an Academy Award for Best Actress for reprising her role in the film version. The 1975 film-sequel, "Funny Lady", focused on Brice's turbulent relationship with impresario Billy Rose and was as highly fictionalized as the original film. Streisand also recorded the Brice songs "My Man", "I'd
Chip Deffaa "The Seven Little Foys," "Theater Boys," "The Irving Berlin Ragtime Revue," "Irving Berlin: In Person," "Irving Berln & Co.," "Presenting Fanny Brice," and "The George M. Cohan Revue." Deffaa's most recent plays include "The Family that Sings Together..." (published by Drama Source), "Presenting Fanny Brice: The Original Funny Girl" (Eldridge Plays), "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (Leicester Bay Theatricals),"Song-and-Dance Kids" (Leicester Bay Theatricals), and "Irving Berlin: In Person" (Leicester Bay Theatricals). All of Deffaa's plays are available for licensing. He is represented by the Fifi Oscard Agency in New York City. Deffaa also produced, in 2002, "The Chip Deffaa Invitational Theater Festival,"