Tony Awards help give Broadway ticket sales a bump
The 2011 Tony Awards and long-anticipated opening of "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" helped fuel a slight increase in Broadway ticket sales to $21,540,623 for the week ending Sunday June 12, up from the previous week's tally of $20,598,779. The total for the new season to date is $42,139,402, down 2.1 percent from the same period last year of $43,061,754. The American Theatre Wing's 65th annual Tony Awards took plac…