What influence did works based on the Faust such as Damn Yankees have over time?
Damn Yankees Damn Yankees is a musical comedy with a book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop, music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The story is a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s in Washington, D.C., during a time when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball. It is based on Wallop's novel "The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant".
Woe to the Young Woe to the Young (Greek: "Αλίμονο στους νέους") is a Greek 1961 film. Is based on the myth of Faust who sold his soul to the Devil. A rich old man, Andreas (Dimitris Horn), who wants to be young again, aiming to marry a young girl, makes a deal with the Devil. He becomes young but with no wealth anymore. He spends too fast the little money he had and finally the girl, after her mother's pressure, rejects him to marry another rich old man of the neighborhood. The film ends when Andreas wakes up, realizing he was dreaming.