“Into the Woods,” which opens July 25, will complete the SummerStock 2007 season at The University of Findlay.

The show will run at 8 p.m. July 25 through 28, 2 p.m. July 28 and 6 p.m. July 29 in the Egner Center for the Performing Arts in the John and Hester Powell Grimm Theatre. Tickets are $15 per person. For ticket information, please call 419-434-5335, or e-mail boxoffice@findlay.edu.

Among the cockeyed characters in James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fractured fairy tale, “Into the Woods,” are an ambivalent Cinderella, a bloodthirsty Little Red Riding Hood, a Prince Charming with a roving eye and a witch who raps. When a baker and his wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone’s wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. What begins as a lively irreverent fantasy in the style of “The Princess Bride” becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children.

Taking the stage will be SummerStock’s core professional company members Rachel Brinker, Doug Cordes, James Holden, Aaron Keller and Emma Lorraine Giffen. Additional cast members include both college interns and high school apprentices.

Katherine Smart, who also directed SummerStock’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (revised) and is originally from Marion, will join the cast as the witch. Joann Chase, a UF alumna who served as casting director for all three SummerStock productions, will portray the baker’s wife.

SummerStock at The University of Findlay has been setting the standard for professional theatre in northwest Ohio since 1977. SummerStock uses a core professional company and supplements with an adjunct company of undergraduate interns and high school apprentices. SummerStock also produces SummerStock Youth Conservatory, a unique summer learning experience for children ages 6-14.