Photograph 51

This lucky girl in the photo got to see Nicole Kidman on stage live in London! How cool is that?

Back in June I saw that Nicole Kidman was set to come back to London to play in "Photograph 51", a play about Rosalind Franklin, a scientist who was a facilitator in discovering the DNA. Michael Grandage, a famous theater director (and director of Katya's movie) invited Nicole Kidman to perform in this production after she worked with him in the movie they shot together last year ("Genius"). 

Of course, this was a special treat, so we left the boys at home and Robert and I took Katya to London for a special night out. 

The theater (Noel Coward Theatre) was PACKED! As the play was about to start, Katya turns to us and says, "Look, it's Colin!" (as in Colin Firth). We turned to the left and sure enough...Colin Firth himself walks by us in the aisle. He was sitting a few rows in front of us with his beautiful wife Livia and a few other famous friends. Out of all the nights in three months when Nicole Kidman is on stage, Colin Firth happened to be watching the play on the same night as us:)!

The shocking part here wasn't seeing Colin Firth but the fact that Katya used just his first name to draw our attention to him-hahaha. 

The play was 90 minutes long, no intermission. The cast was stellar! Amazing! It was entertaining and educational and very thought provoking. Katya understood...most of it..so it was definitely a grown up play, but with nothing dirty in it. 

After the show we did something that we have never done before! We went to the back door to wait for the actors to come out and see if they would sign our play brochure. It was very exciting, I must say:)

This is the only picture we snapped--with Will Attenborough, aka James Watson (another Dr. Watson). 

Another actor you might recognize, who played an American scientist, Don Caspar, was Patrick Kennedy. We didn't get a picture with him...

And of course, NICOLE KIDMAN! She came out from the back door to greet the crowd.  

She did try to sign a few autographs and get a few pictures with the fans, but there were just too many people for us to get through without being rude. She didn't walk out of the building and go down the street like the other actors, but she went back inside so we had no chance:(. Well, hopefully, this is not the last time we see her:).

And thus, a wonderful memory was created. What a great night! So grateful for the opportunity to live so close to city like London.

Lyana.