Two musicals starring Barbra Streisand as musical comedienne Fanny Brice. With Omar Sharif and James Caan. The Oscar-winning Funny Girl includes songs like Don’t Rain on My Parade and People and Funny Lady is the lively and lavish follow-up. Omar Sharif and James Caan co-star. The Oscar-winning Funny Girl also stars Omar Sharif as playboy Nick Arnstein and Walter Pidgeon as Ziegfield, as in Ziegfield\'s Follies. When Ziegfield puts Fanny in his Follies, she becomes an instant hit. However, marriage to Nick is not a bed of roses. Funny Lady is the lively and lavish follow-up set in the 1930s. Fanny is now over Nick and due to marry womanising impresario Billy Rose, played by James Caan. But their relationship is tempestuous.