High Street production delivers everything you could wish for

ONCE UPON A TIME—Randi Redman as Cinderella in “Into the Woods” playing through July 7 at High Street Arts Center in Moorpark. Courtesy of Barbara Mazeika

Sometimes the most complex ideas begins with a simple premise. In the case of Stephen Sondheim’s quasi-fairy tale “Into the Woods,” the premise was a two-note musical phrase set to the words “I wish.” Wishing is the basic motivating factor in Sondheim’s acclaimed 1987 musical, a motif shared by its raft of familiar storybook characters who ...