The two-time Tony winner reacted to the one-time Tony winner, who paid homage to Peters with their ensemble on Sunday.

Cole Escola won the Tony for best actor in a play for their performance in the outlandish, ahistoric comedy “ Oh, Mary! ” This is Escola’s Broadway debut, and first Tony.

Cole Escola, channeling Bernadette Peters, thanked fellow nominees in their speech for their history-making Tony Awards win for "Oh, Mary!"