 It is 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".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.