Several Broadway plays are performing powerfully at the box office as summer begins, a time when plays usually fade fast as increasingly tourist-heavy audiences opt for musicals. Weekly ticket sales for the Christopher Durang comedy “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” have increased by 30 percent since winning the Tony Award for best play on June 9; the show grossed $711,012 last week, or 93 percent of the maximum potential gross, a huge amount for a play. The one-woman play starring Bette Midler, “I’ll Eat You Last,” set another box office record at the Booth Theater, grossing $890,276 – the equivalent of 114 percent of the maximum possible gross after factoring in premium ticket prices...
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