# Success! > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Success! > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Success!.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success! > Source revision: 1348062338 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Musical by Bernard J. Taylor This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Success!" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message) ***Success!*** is a musical by [Bernard J. Taylor](/source/Bernard_J._Taylor) that was first recorded in 1993 as a studio concept album featuring various [West End](/source/West_End_theatre) performers including [Lon Satton](/source/Lon_Satton) (who created the role of Poppa in [Andrew Lloyd Webber](/source/Andrew_Lloyd_Webber)'s [Starlight Express](/source/Starlight_Express)), [Claire Moore](/source/Claire_Moore_(singer)), Kathryn Evans, [Jessica Martin](/source/Jessica_Martin_(actor)) and Maurice Clarke. It had its world premiere stage production in [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham), [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire), in 1995. Following are extracts of some of the reviews: "Great writers of stage music have always proved themselves to be versatile. In the light of the favourable reaction it received it would have been more than easy for Taylor to follow Wuthering Heights with another show in that same grand scale, but instead he quickly showed his credentials by heading in a totally different direction and in doing so comes up with another admirable piece of work. "Success!" is full of splendid material and is loads of fun." - Mike Gibb, ***Masquerade***, Issue 13, 1993 "An adaptation of the Faust legend, I enjoyed this one very much, and it has some bright, breezy and catchy numbers. I will be surprised if anyone who buys it is disappointed with the standard of the songs." - Terry Wardrope, ***Words and Music***, Issue 17, January 1994. "Taylor's score has several attractive songs . . . They're all sung as if they are the hottest songs to come from the West End." - ***Show Music***, USA, autumn 1993 edition. v t e Works based on Faust Folk legend Faust Johann Georg Faust Deal with the Devil in popular culture Simon Magus Theophilus of Adana Erdgeist Mephistopheles Pan Twardowski Stingy Jack Seminal works Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587 chapbook) Doctor Faustus (1592 play) Cenodoxus (1602, play) Goethe's Faust (1808 play) Faust, Part One Faust, Part Two Prose "Bearskin" "Daniel and the Devil" Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) "The Devil and Tom Walker" (1824) St. John's Eve (1830) Auriol (1844) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) Chasse-galerie (1892) The Sorrows of Satan (1896) Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (1898) The Master and Margarita (1929–1940) Mephisto (1936) "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937) None but Lucifer (1939) Doktor Faustus (1947) The Devil in Velvet (1951) The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954) Gimmicks Three (1956) The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956) That Hell-Bound Train (1958) For a Breath I Tarry (1966) The Damnation Game (1986) Eric (1990) The Devil's Own Work (1991) Jack Faust (1997) Johannes Cabal the Necromancer (2009) The Last Faust (2019) Plays Gretchen (1879) Damn Yankees (1955) Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955) The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon (1965) Temptation (1986) Operas Faust (1816, Spohr) La Damnation de Faust (1846, Berlioz) Faust (1859, Gounod) Mefistofele (1868, Boito) Le petit Faust (1869, Hervé) Faust and Marguerite (1855, Lutz) Faust up to Date (1888, Lutz) Doktor Faust (1916–1925, Busoni) Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) The Rake's Progress (1951, Stravinsky) Reuben, Reuben (1955) Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1994) Faustus, the Last Night (2006) Ballets Faust ballets Classical music Gretchen am Spinnrade (1814, Schubert) Faust Overture (1840, Wagner) Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Âges' 2nd movement "Quasi-Faust" (1847, Alkan) Scenes from Goethe's Faust (1853, Schumann) Part II of Symphony No. 8 (1906–07, Mahler) Faust Symphony (1854–1857, Liszt) Mephisto Waltzes (Liszt) Gothic Symphony (Brian) Bagatelle sans tonalité (Liszt) Other music Albums Epica Saga Epica The Black Halo Beethoven's Last Night The Black Rider Songs "Mephisto Polka" (1859–1885) "Cross Road Blues" (1936) "Friend of the Devil" (1970) "Bohemian Rhapsody" (1975) "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" (1979) "Faustian Echoes" (2012) "The Mephistopheles of Los Angeles" (2015) Films The Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897) Faust and Marguerite (1900) The Damnation of Faust (1903) Faust and Marguerite (1904) The Student of Prague (1913) Rapsodia satanica (1915) The Student of Prague (1926) Faust (1926) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) Alias Nick Beal (1949) The Legend of Faust (1949) Beauty and the Devil (1950) Marguerite de la nuit (1955) Damn Yankees (1958) Faust (1960) Bedazzled (1967) Doctor Faustus (1967) El extraño caso del doctor Fausto (1969) Mephisto (1981) Doctor Faustus (1982) Oh, God! You Devil (1984) Crossroads (1986) Faust (1994) Bedazzled (2000) Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) Fausto 5.0 (2001) I Was a Teenage Faust (2002) Shortcut to Happiness (2007) Goat Story (2008) Faust (2011) The Last Faust (2019) Doctor Faustus (2021) Television Episodes "Printer's Devil" (1963) "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (2003) Other The Devil and Daniel Mouse (1978) When the Devil Calls Your Name (2019) Musicals Damn Yankees (1955) Randy Newman's Faust (1995) Success! (1993) Faust (2003) Disco Inferno (2004) Comics Gods' Man (1929) Faust (manga) (1950) Doctor Faustus (comics) (1968) Faust (comics) (1987) Frau Faust (2014) Art Mephistopheles and Margaretta Paintings Category --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Success!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success!) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success!?action=history)). 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