Theater Latte Da brings the inventive ‘Scotland, PA’ to local stage

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Theater Latte Da brings the inventive ‘Scotland, PA’ to local stage

I discovered opera through “Gilligan’s Island.” In one particularly clever episode, a movie producer played by Phil Silvers washed ashore, and the castaways created a musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” with tunes from “Carmen” and “The Tales of Hoffman.” I still smile when I hear an instrumental version of the “Habanera” from “Carmen” on the radio and start to sing, “I ask to be, or not to be. …” There’s a similarly witty combination o…