Victorian burlesque by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt with music by Meyer Lutz
Faust up to Date
Sheet music
Music
Meyer Lutz
Lyrics
G. R. Sims Henry Pettitt
Book
G. R. Sims Henry Pettitt
Productions
1888 West End
Faust up to Date is a musical burlesque with a libretto was written by G. R. Sims and Henry Pettitt, and a score written by Meyer Lutz (a few songs by others were interpolated into the show). Set in Nuremberg, it is a spoof of Gounod's opera, Faust, which had first been performed in London in 1864. The burlesque followed on from an earlier Lutz musical, Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite.
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 and Mabel Love as Totchen. 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.
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celebrated enough to be mentioned in song lyrics by Lorenz Hart and Cole Porter. By the late 1930s, burlesque shows would have upto six strippers supported...
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burlesques included Faustuptodate (1888), which remained a hit for several years and coined a new meaning for the phrase "up-to-date", meaning "abreast"...
burlesques included FaustuptoDate (1888), which remained a hit for several years and coined a new meaning for the phrase "up-to-date", meaning "abreast"...
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in London at the Gaiety Theatre as Mephistopheles in a revival of Faustuptodate. Most of Payne's subsequent career was spent at the Gaiety. He enjoyed...
playing the dancing role of Totchen, the vivandière (camp follower) in FaustUpToDate (1888–89). In March 1889, under the headline "Disappearance of a Burlesque...
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