Sunlight is mostly blue/green. Refraction in the atmosphere causes us to see the sky as blue.
Our eyes are intended to see colors as they would appear lit by natural sunlight, so when lighting the stage we would (normally) want natural looking colors.
Rayleigh scattering. I would explain further but it would deprive others from learning that physics is phun.
Anything to do with light relates to lighting design. I have read that selective Rayleigh scattering has been applied to LCD backlighting, LEDs, dichroic filters, and optically efficient polarized diffusers.