If you’re a fan of Broadway musicals, you’ll be excited to know that five of the Tony-nominated musicals will be showcased on television this week. “Live with Regis and Kelly” which is calling this week Broadway Week 2008.

Each featured show has been nominated for one of more of the Antoinette Perry Awards, otherwise known as the “Tony” awards.

Monday starts with Sierra Bogges from Disney’s exciting Broadway recreation of their hit animated film, “The Little Mermaid. Bogges will perform “Part of Your World,” a song well known by children and adults alike.

Tuesday brings Alli Mauzey from “Cry-Baby The Musical,” also an adaptation from a motion picture. Harvey Fierstein will be presenting “Coney Island” on Wednesday from the new musical “A Catered Affair.” On Thursday it’s another motion picture turned Broadway hit—“Xanadu.”

American Idol winner, Taylor Hicks, who along with the cast members of the revival of “Grease” will be performing “Beauty School Dropout”, will finish off the week.

Although the choices for show are definitely high profile in that the majority of the musicals featured are also movies, it will be a good plug for the wonderful theater options in New York these days. For tickets to these and other wonderful plays click on the link.

Broadway touring groups have been concerned about their effect on the environment. They emit thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through the large trucks that transport all of the stage equipment from one city to the next.

Unfortunately, there aren’t alternative technologies available that will allow these touring companies to still get where they need to go, without contributing greatly to the environmental problem. So what do they do to “go green?”

The solution is to fund short- and long-term projects that offset the impact of the emissions. This is accomplished through NativeEnergy, inc., one of the leaders in high quality carbon offsets. These offsets will be created by new wind turbines, methane digesters on American family farms, and landfill gas projects.

When you consider that the Broadway League brings Broadway to 30 million people in New York and more than 240 cities across North America, the effect on the environment from their touring can be very large. Being ever mindful of the needs of the environment, the industry has responded appropriately to help offset their energy usage.

I think that this action represents the future of modern environmentalism. It doesn’t require huge sacrifices. We can still enjoy touring groups for our entertainment. But these groups, which generate large amounts of capital in their industry, have to take appropriate actions to make up for their large carbon footprint. You can continue to buy tickets to Broadway shows with a clean conscience.

Another week has gone by already and we have the 5 hottest events from SelectATicket.com for your enjoyment!

Check out the list this week as there are some interesting additions and deviations from the usual list of Broadway, concert and sporting event tickets:

1. Neil Diamond Tickets
2. Philadelphia Phillies Tickets
3. Bruce Springsteen Tickets
4. Monty Python’s Spamalot on Broadway
5. Passing Strange The New Musical

So those are the top events people were looking for during the final week of April 2008 and the start of May.

Thank you for reading TicketBulletin.com and be sure to return again next week to find out what people are interested in when they visit SelectATicket.com.

The following events make up the list of top 5 most popular events on SelectATicket.com for the previous week.

Not a big surprise that Devils vs Rangers tickets and Red Sox vs Yankees tickets both made the list — we love our sporting rivalries! And our theater fans always turn out for Wicked and this week Cat On A Hot Tin Roof makes the cut. But we didn’t forget to bring the family out for some fun too because the circus came to town!

Wicked on Broadway

Circus Tickets

NJ Devils vs NY Rangers playoff tickets

Red Sox vs Yankees tickets

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof tickets

I never realized that the Tony Awards have such a complicated eligibility process. Some people have questioned it. But regardless of it’s fairness, it’s the most important award for theater in the U.S. So everyone in the industry is certainly pining to be recognized.

Rules are new every year. The decisions for eligibility are complicated.

This year, for example, they just announced that “The Little Mermaid” would be eligible for nomination in the Best Score category. This was in question, given that many of the songs were originally written for the movie. But since more than 50 percent was written for the play, the decision makers deemed it eligible.

The biggest criterion to consider is the required opening dates for eligibility. The management established that for the 2006-2007 year, the cut off date was May 9th, 2007.

Another criteria to consider is the actual theater. A Broadway theater is defined as one having more than 500 seats. Although the definition of Broadway theater does not take into account the location of the theater, the committee determines the list of eligible theaters, which only consists of theaters in New York City.

This Administration Committee has 24 members and determines eligibility. The Nominating Committee makes the actual nominations for the categories.

To see this year’s competitors, get your tickets for Broadway plays online and enjoy.

The master of sci-fi horror, Steven King, has written the script for “Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” which will be seen on the big New York stage in April 2009 at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. The music will be written by rock n’ roll star John Mellencamp.

Yahoo News quotes the Alliance, which announced the project last week, describing the play as “a sultry Southern gothic mystery with a blues-tinged, guitar-driven score.”

The story revolves around the deaths of two brothers and young girl in a fictional Mississippi town in 1957. There’s a legend that grows out of the tragedy. The story’s original conception is due to Mellencamp, who heard the story in his own hometown of Seymour, Ind.

The play will be directed by Peter Askin, known for his direction of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

Mellencamp is quoted in a Rolling Stone interview and then at Playbill.com as saying, “If it goes well in Atlanta, then we’ll come to Broadway. If it don’t go well in Atlanta, we’re done.”

It’s hard to know exactly how this will work out. Steven King has a prolific career as one of America’s great novelists. Many of his books have been converted to hit movies, including “The Shining,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” and “Stand By Me.” Time will tell if he can make it to Broadway. I wouldn’t bet against him.

For current plays on stage be sure to look for Broadway tickets online.