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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ' Faust up to Date is a musical burlesque with a score written by Meyer Lutz. The libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt. The piece was first performed at the Gaiety Theatre, London on 30 October 1888, produced by George Edwardes and ran until August 1889. It starred Florence St. John as Margaret, E. J. Lonnen as Mephistopheles, Fanny Robina as Faust, George Stone as Valentine, and Mabel Love as Totchen. A highlight of the piece was a dance for four women. It was revived in July 1892, with Florence St. John again playing the role of Margaret, Edmund Payne as Mephistopheles and Arthur Williams as Valentine. The piece enjoyed subsequent productions in New York, Australia (with Robert Courtneidge as Valentine) and elsewhere. Faust up to Date was a spoof of Gounod's opera Faust, which had first been performed in London in 1864, and followed on from an earlier Lutz musical Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite.

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