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Upcoming dynamic Conservative left for musical drama (5)

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I believe the answer is:

evita

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'musical drama' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'upcoming dynamic conservative left' is the wordplay.
'upcoming' is a reversal indicator.
'dynamic' becomes 'active' (similar in meaning).
'conservative' becomes 'C' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'left' indicates named letters should be taken away.
'active' with 'c' taken out is 'ative'.
'ative' in reverse letter order is 'EVITA'.

'for' is the link.

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(Other definitions for evita that I've seen before include "Famous musical" , "Show" , "Nineteen Dn musical" , "Eva Peron" , "Stage musical" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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