Forced Pat to hurry to catch American stage show (6,9)
I believe the answer is:
madame butterfly
'stage show' is the definition.
(Madame Butterfly is an opera)
'forced pat to hurry to catch american' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'pat' could be 'butter' (pat can mean a lump of butter) and 'butter' is located in the answer.
'hurry' could be 'fly' (I've seen this before) and 'fly' is present in the answer.
'american' could be 'am' (abbreviation in some contexts) and 'am' is found within the answer.
'forced' could be 'made' (both can mean coerced) and 'made' is found within the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for madame butterfly that I've seen is " opera".)