Funny Girl was followed by a sequel in 1975 called Funny Lady. It picked up with Fanny Brice's later life with second husband Billy Rose and starred Barbra Streisand and James Caan. It was directed by Herbert Ross, who staged the musical numbers in Funny Girl. While it was disappointing to most critics and moviegoers compared to Funny Girl, the sequel still did solid business.

The original Broadway show of Funny Girl opened March 26, 1964 and ran for 1348 performances. It was nominated for eight Tony Awards.

On September 23, 2002 a one-night-only concert performance of Funny Girl was given at New York's New Amsterdam Theatre as a benefit for the Actors' Fund. It featured performers such as Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer and Jane Krakowski singing various songs from the show.

In 1968 Diana Ross and the Supremes released an album of cover songs from Funny Girl called Diana Ross and the Supremes Sing and Perform Funny Girl. It was not a hit and turned out to be the lowest ranking album ever released by The Supremes. It is a hard to find recording and has never been released on CD.

Barbra Streisand released a single of the song "People" written by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill in January 1964 and it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard charts. It was Streisand's first Top 40 hit.

The song "People" from both the Broadway show and movie version of Funny Girl has been recorded numerous times by artist such as Jack Jones and Perry Como.

Singer Bobby Darin recorded a version of the Funny Girl song "Don't Rain on My Parade" in 1966. This version was used in the trailer for Steven Spielberg's 2002 film Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

by Andrea Passafiume