My friend and I were talking online. I told her to watch the Company performance on the Tonys. She came back after about a minute or so and said she was bored at watching the performance, a performance that is supposed to be the height of Raul's character.
David Hyde Pierce, on the other hand, consistently keeps the audience entertained and laughing, even though some may not feel he is giving a heartfelt performance.
Perhaps the Tony voters also felt bored. Everyone has different tastes in what they enjoy seeing onstage. What one person saw as Raul pouring out his soul onstage, another probably saw as Raul giving a boring performance. You don't know what the actual votes were. Perhaps it was almost even between the two.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
