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Not working in musical coming up after short musical drama (11)

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I believe the answer is:

inoperative

'not working' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'in musical coming up after short musical drama' is the wordplay.
'musical' becomes 'evita' (I've seen this before**).
'coming up' is a reversal indicator.
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'musical drama' becomes 'opera' (I've seen this before).
'evita' back-to-front is 'ative'.
'opera' with its last letter removed is 'oper'.
'ative' put after 'oper' is 'operative'.
'in'+'operative'='INOPERATIVE'

(Other definitions for inoperative that I've seen before include "It's useless" , "Anna -, Russian poet (Requiem)" , "with no effect" , "Not in working order" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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