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Leona Lewis performs in Broadway ‘Cats’ show

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Awakens” were filmed there.

Hollywood star Harrison Ford could have been killed when a door from the Millenium Falcon spaceship set fell on him during filming in 2014, a court heard earlier this week in a health and safety case.

The actor suffered a broken leg in the incident.

The 007 Stage at Pinewood was built for the Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me” and has since been used for numerous production­s including “Lara Croft Tomb Raider” and “The Da Vinci Code.”

Pinewood had appointed Rothschild investment bank in February to prepare a possible sale of the company.

The shareholde­r register is “tightly held, which has continued to stifle liquidity in the shares NEW YORK: When she was not yet 10, Leona Lewis was taken to see “Cats” in London. It turned out to be theatrical catnip.

“It was so magical and it was such a spectacle, just the music and the dance, everything was so emotional. I just remember loving it,” she recalled. “After seeing the show, I went to my singing teacher and I went, ‘I want to learn “Memory.’” So I ended up learning ‘Memory’ when I was like 9.”

More than two decades later, Lewis is leading the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s still-frisky musical.

In the years since she first encountere­d “Cats,” Lewis won the and has prevented the company from achieving its aim of obtaining a main market listing,” Pinewood Group said.

The James Bond movie franchise is one of the longest continuall­y-running in history. Since 1962, Eon Production­s has produced 22 films and grossed just over $5 billion to date, making it the second-highest-grossing film series behind Harry Potter. TV contest show “X Factor,” earned three Grammy nomination­s. She became the first British female solo artist to top the US Billboard 200 album chart in more than 20 years.

Broadway represente­d a career shake up following a disappoint­ing reception to “I Am,” her fifth studio album and the first since she left Simon Cowell’s record label.

“It’s a lot of work and it’s very focused and dedicated and you have to literally eat, sleep, live, breathe the theater. That was a whole new challenge for me and something I wanted to take on,” she said. “I feel like it will improve me as a performer — it already has.”

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