The Lord of the Rings - The Musical

I read somewhere once that there are only 6 jokes and one story line in the world and all the rest is variation on a theme but I don't believe that. I will say that for a long time the plots of 90% of musicals always seemed to be able to be summed up by the following. Boy and Girl meet, for some usually inexplicable reason one or both of them get distracted. A ballet takes place the villain is defeated and the couple get back together. The originality lay in the back ground and the trimmings. In the last few years we have been exploring other ideas although I'm getting a bit sick of plotless "celebrations" of various stars musical lives masquerading as musicals. The world of new ideas is alive and well long may it reign