In defense of Miss Applegate: Her problems in the number were not her fault. I am livid that whoever conducted and put together that "medley" did not do their job and FOLLOW THE SINGER. Was the conductor the one for the show, or the Tony conductor? Awful. She had no chance because whoever it was was not doing their job as a conductor. Furthermore, Ethel Merman couldn't have gotten her note into If They Could See Me Now after Big Spender ended - totally different key and now bell tone or anything to help Miss Applegate find her note. Shameful.
BUTT - not as shameful as the horrible, awful Wayne Cilento ripoffs of Fosse. You know, Fosse's name is nowhere to be found in the Charity program, and yet Mr. Cilento thinks he can just steal wholesale like that? But, not steal in a good way - just randomly because he doesn't have one original choreographic bone in his body. The fact that he is making a living doing this is astonishing. And those sickening groupies...