Spirit's Realm

Griffin: John against Eternity. Civilizations against, not each other, but the Hobbesian Trap pitting them against each other. Fitzroy against magic.

Travis: Magnus against the corrupt Governor Kalen. Furs and Fangs against the corrupt sherrif.

Justin: Taako against Taako's self-isolation. Irene vs. Kardala. The Fierbolg against his own shame and expectations. (Spectral cashews guy didn't really pan out, but you see the beginnings of this in the intent.)

Lazy...

And then 40 years later, Andrew Lloyd Webber found a lost cat poem that T.S. Eliot had cut from the cat book for being too sad for children, and ALW was like "woahhh. A cat....that's sad. That's deep, man. I wanna make a musical out of this"

So the producer assigned to the project was like "okay, I guess you could maybe read these cat poems as a satire of 1930s British society? We could probably do something sort of interesting with that, I'm thinking a cast of about 5 and--"

And ALW was like "no. Forget the satire. Also I want a cast of dozens and the most advanced special effects technology ever seen on stage. I've taken out a second mortgage on my house to fund this"

And the producer was like "wh-- you-- wh-- do you even have. a plot"

So ALW got a bunch of actors and writers and artists together and they holed up and did cocaine workshopped for 5 weeks, and at the end of it they emerged and said "the plot is that a bunch of cats are having a dance contest for the right to take a ufo to cat heaven :)"