Randy Newman's Faust

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Randy Newman's Faust
Studio album by Randy Newman
Released	September 19, 1995
Recorded	1993–1995
Genre	Musical, rock opera
Label	Reprise/Warner Bros.
Producer	Peter Asher, Don Was
Randy Newman chronology
Land of Dreams (1988) Randy Newman's Faust (1995) Guilty: 30 Years of Randy Newman (1998)

Randy Newman's Faust is the ninth studio album and a 1995 musical by American musician and songwriter Randy Newman, who based the work on the classic story of Faust, borrowing elements from the version by Goethe, as well as Milton's Paradise Lost, but updating the story to the modern day, and infusing it with humorous cynicism.

In this retelling, God and the Devil fight for the soul of Henry Faust, a student at the University of Notre Dame.

The musical was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in September 1995, and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in Sept 1996, as well as released as a CD as a concept album.

In July 2014, a stripped-down, modernized "concert" version was staged for Encores! at New York City Center.^[1]