Ms. Eisenstadt, who worked for Saks Fifth Avenue and two of New York's top public relations agencies before moving to Los Angeles to run her own company, keeps a Top 10 roster of actual stranger-than-fiction stories that rival "Ab Fab" for outrageousness.
In the summer, Dalhalla (dalhalla.se) has a top-notch roster of performers.
The "identity" issue was sidelined and Phoenix Dance Theatre (as he renamed it) became a repertory company with a top-notch roster of international dancers.
The session had featured a top-flight roster -- including the trumpeters Woody Shaw and Dizzy Reece, the bassist Ron Carter, the reedman Joe Farrell, the trombonist Julian Priester, the tuba player Howard Johnson and the drummer Lenny White -- and its survivors remembered everyone playing at peak power.
Now an enterprising director named Michael Engler has staged six of the monologues and enlisted a top-flight roster of performers, including Christine Ebersole (late of "Dinner at Eight" and "42nd Street") and Kathleen Chalfant ("Wit").
A recent concert at the 92nd Street Y, with a top-notch roster of musicians under the artistic direction of the cellist Fred Sherry, played an Elliott Carter birthday tribute program that included five engrossing and ingenious scores that Mr. Carter wrote this year, as well as a major work for tenor and chamber orchestra from 2010 in its premiere performance.
But on Thursday night, Mr. Carter, who turns 103 on Sunday, was not only in the audience at the 92nd Street Y for a tribute presented by a top-notch roster of musicians under the artistic direction of the cellist Fred Sherry, but he had also written five works this year that were included in the program.
UTA, under the leadership of its co-president Jay Sures, has made a big push in the past four years to establish its news and speakers division (after acquiring the independent agency N.S. Bienstock in 2014), and it now boasts a top-shelf talent roster.
But planners see Ocean Beach as a top priority in a long roster of Bay Area sites threatened by inundation because of what lies on its landward side: the Great Highway, a $220 million wastewater treatment plant and a 14-foot-wide underground pipe that keeps sewage-tainted storm water away from the ocean.
The presence of hip-hop was nice (Kanye West, Chance the Rapper and Kendrick Lamar were all terrific), but much of the roster was a Top 40 mishmash (John Mayer, Imagine Dragons and Steve Aoki).
