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Coming together to capture Oscar for musical (4,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lion king

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'musical' is the definition.
(The Lion King is a stage musical)

'coming together to capture oscar' is the wordplay.
'coming together' becomes 'linking' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to capture' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'oscar' becomes 'O' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'linking' placed around 'o' is 'LION KING'.

'for' is the link.

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