Also, prices are not as high. Tickets to see Holmes are getting about $300 a ticket while Kidman’s show got as much as $700 a ticket for The Blue Room which opened in 1998. Rather than blue, Holmes is probably seeing red right now. The leading ladies share something in common though. Holmes is, of course Tom Cruise’s current wife, and Kidman his former.

Also, times were different when Kidman was married to Cruise. His popularity was higher then. They were also starring together in the controversial film Eyes Wide Shut which featured some risque scenes between real life husband and wife. Those were good times. Also consider that a tickets to a Broadway play just aren’t drawing the type of prices they used to.

It’s brave for Holmes to step into this territory at this point. Some blame Cruise for dooming this opening night before it even begins. And as we can see, the media is not going to be easy on either one of them.

Some of the biggest news besides who is or isn’t participating in the Home Run Derby, is a free concert. Legendary rock band Bon Jovi will perform for free on Saturday July 12th at New York’s Central Park.

Here are the All Star game events going on:

1) MLB All Star Fan Fest
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Friday July 11 - Tuesday July 15
MLB All Star Sunday
Yankee Stadium
Sunday July 13

MLB All Star Sunday
a) The Futures Game
b) The Celebrity Softball Game

3) MLB Home Run Derby
Yankee Stadium
Monday July 14

4) MLB All Star Game
Yankee Stadium
Tuesday July 15

Here’s where you can get MLB All Star game tickets. Enjoy your 4th of July holiday  - see you at the game!

The New York Times described it this way:

“Shoddy fielding, a slumbering offense and poor pitching, stalwarts of the first 81 games, reappeared as the Mets opened the second half of their season with a 7-1 loss at Busch Stadium. With their lineup struggling as it is, their margin for error is minimal. Committing three errors and giving up runs in each of the first five innings, then, is no way to go ahead and ease the pressure.”

Interim Mets manager Jerry Manuel put it even more starkly: “We didn’t do too much defensively, we didn’t do too much offensively, we didn’t do too much in the manager’s seat, we didn’t do too much in the coaches’ seat, we didn’t do too much of anything tonight,” Manuel said. Pitcher Oliver Perez has proved to be on again, off again and this game it was off.

Defense was poor and the Mets lost to the Cardinals 7-1. Tomorrow is a new day: next up the Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals again at Busch Stadium.

The show will feature Rivers’ outrageous sense of humor and love for Broadway. She will introduce show tunes, play songs, and offer special commentary on her favorite Broadway shows. She will also feature rarely heard excerpts from the “Ed Sullivan Show” from the 60’s.

This marks a great opportunity for Broadway fans to hear entertaining discussion about their favorite topic. It’s also a great chance for those who haven’t been exposed to Broadway and all of its glory to become familiar with the world of theater. Anything that promotes this often-overlooked art form is a good thing for the theater. Hopefully it will inspire more people to purchase Broadway tickets.

Sirius Radio delivers more than 130 channels. All broadcasting is commercial free, in satellite radio. There are 69 music channels. There are 65 channels with sports, news, talk, entertainment, traffic, weather and data. It’s the future of radio. It’s nice to see Broadway getting it’s due with such a great media form.

The most popular event last week was The Lion King on Broadway. SelectATicket has a great selection of seats for most Lion King performances in New York and all at competitive prices.

The next event on the list of the hottest tickets is South Pacific tickets. Once again, SelectATicket proves itself as a popular web site for Broadway tickets.

Not to be outdone, the long-running Phantom of the Opera comes in third on the list this past week. Despite being on Broadway for several years, this timeless classic still is a hot ticket.

Yet another Broadway musical makes the list as Jersey Boys tickets were a hot commodity on www.SelectATicket.com last week. The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons still packs the crowds and Select A Ticket is happy to help you acquire these hard to find tickets.

Last but certainly not least, a lot of the Select A Ticket faithful visitors are die-hard New York sports fans so it comes as no surprise to see that the Fourth of July Boston Red Sox vs New York Yankees Tickets at Yankee Stadium were among the top 5 Hot Tickets from Select A Ticket last week. Everybody loves a rivalry and there is nothing like the bad blood between the Yankees and Red Sox to provide their own fireworks on the Fourth of July!

Be sure to come back next Monday to see which events top this week’s list of Hot Tickets from Select A Ticket.

“They are the residue of their historic collapse last September, a consequence of a flawed roster and a fragile rotation. They are a disappointment, no matter how much they wish to massage it, no matter how much they may detest their reflection in their own mirrors.”

Forget the fact that they mitigated the damage on Wednesday with an 8-2 win over the Mariners. It’s only a small consolation when you consider the all out drubbing they incurred the night before, losing 0-11.

Brooks says that this is the very definition of a mediocre team—to win a few, and then lose a few, as if they were ambling through life, without consideration of their actual performance.

The franchise would suggest that they’re taking their mediocrity very seriously, taking actions that demonstrate the repellent nature of said patchiness. I mean, why else did they fire Willie Randolph? Interim manager, Jerry Manuel suggested that it was time for tough decisions on Tuesday night after their embarrassing loss. What do you suppose he meant by that?

Time will tell. Let’s hope that those interested in buying Mets tickets in the coming months are able to stay patient.

Tuesday’s loss was their third loss in four games. All of those teams, I might add, have losing records. Hitless Alex Rodriguez, when being interviewed about the game, felt that Girardi’s expression of disgust was unnecessary. But being a leader is about stating the reality, and the reality is that the Yankees grossly underperformed Tuesday. They missed multiple chances for victory.

Wednesday’s win shows the Yankees in all of their promise and capacity. They won 10-0. Chamberlain proved Girardi’s decision to move him to starter. Girardi is quoted in the Daily News as saying:

“Joba has the ability to pitch games like this; that’s the kind of stuff he has. When you lose three out of four, you want to get back on the right track. Joba was up to the task.”

It’s hard to know who Yankees fans are going to see from one night to the next. Are they going to see a powerful winning team, or a team that throws all of it’s opportunity down the toilet?

The play with a very long title was first featured Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in May 1976. It then made its move to Broadway on September 10, 1976. It played for 876 performances. It also toured the U.S. for two years.

It was written by Ntozake Shange, a performer, poet, playwright, and novelist. The new revision will feature new and updated material from Shange.

India.Arie is one of the most acclaimed singers and songwriters of the neo-soul movement. She is known for her acoustic sound and thoughtful lyrics. She’s won two Grammy Awards and has received 16 nominations.

The new play will be directed by Jo Finney, a newcomer to Broadway, but acclaimed theater director nonetheless. She has been honored with an NAACP Image Award and an L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for her production of “Yellow Man” at the Fountain Theatre on the West Coast.

Choreography will be by Hinton Battle, a three-time Tony winner. Musical Direction will be offered by Harold Wheeler, recipient of seven Tony nominations.

Be watching for Broadway tickets online for this exciting show.

An article today in the New York Post by Mark Hale paraphrases Wilpon saying, “the former manager was well aware of what the winning standard was going to be when he was hired.” Wilpon suggests that although Randolph did a good job, when they looked at the numbers, he wasn’t meeting their winning expectation.

Apparently Wilpon was also very defensive of General Manager, Omar Minaya, suggesting that he’s “done a great job.” He outlines how the firing transpired. Minaya called Wilpon on the 15th saying that he wanted to have a meeting the next day, that he wanted to fire Randolph and two coaches, that he wanted to do it quickly and in person. He also said that he wanted to sleep on it. Which he did. The meeting was then held the next morning at 9 am where the decision was finally made.

What still isn’t answered is why the Minaya disregarded his own resolve and made the move through an email in the middle of the night.

This will no doubt be a famous moment for Mets fans to relieve for years—the night Willie Randolph got the axe by email. Maybe if the Mets can turn around a mediocre season, it will be a decision that one sort of smirks at, rather than disgusts in.

Game one was their first loss after a 7 game winning streak. It came, in part, from a controversial call by Joe Girardi. He told Mike Mussina to intentionally walk Jay Bruce. This was followed up by a Jolbert Cabrera’s double down the left field, setting the pace for a three-run inning for the Reds which culminated in a 4-2 loss.

Game two provided opportunities for the Yankees that never came to fruition, with the Reds again handing them a loss 6-0. The New York Post quotes Johnny Damon who managed to walk three times without scoring:

“It’s just a shame because we had so many opportunities to score runs and we didn’t. We didn’t find a way to put any pressure on them.”

Game three’s win owes a lot to Andy Pettitte. His time on the mound ended in the 6th inning with a rain delay. But it ended 19 straight innings without allowing a run. Additionally, he’s only allowed one run in his last three starts, all of which ended in Yankee victory.

Let’s hope that the rest of the New York Yankees season looks more like game 3, rather than game 1 and 2.