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. 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.
Sheet music
Florence St. John and Fanny Robina in the original production
Sheet music for a piano arrangement of one of Marguerite's songs
George Robert Sims was an English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist and bon vivant.
Sims c. 1890
Sims in 1884
Sims at work
Sims c. 1910