Road-show 'Blossom Time'

Me: So, are Lilac Time and Blossom Time the same show under different titles? (checks Wikipedia) Huh. Weird.

Apparently, they’re different English-language adaptations of the same Viennese operetta in which Franz Schubert shows up as a character and in some versions, so does his music. Or pastiches of his music.

Poor Schubert – he could seldom get any of his works performed publicly, and then he had such a lurid afterlife as a character in other people’s stage shows and movies. Often played by performers who were significantly older than he was when he died. Sort of the same thing happened to Toulouse-Lautrec, I suppose. For my part I can never bring myself to see either man’s life as a tragedy.