One of these is you. Six kinds of event organizer, shown as six cocktail glasses on a ticket-shaped card.

Which cocktail runs your box office?

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Every organizer has a house style. Not the kind that goes in a deck. The kind that shows up at 6:58 on a Friday when something needs deciding and everyone turns to look at you.

Here are six of them, as cocktails. Pick the one that sounds most like you, then read the rest and work out who you have been standing beside all these years.

Six organizer host types as cocktails. Host type 01, The Old Fashioned Ticket Stub, the Reliable Host: warm and unhurried, nineteen years in and your instincts still call it right. Download your ticket lists before you leave for site. Host type 02, The 75% Sold French 75, the Refresh Button Host: bright and celebratory, you watch the room fill because a full room sells next year too. Put the phone down. Host type 03, The Walk-Up Whisky Sour, the Flexible Host: sharp with a soft finish, you keep seats for the people who decide at six. Put a device on the door with its own preset. Host type 04, The Last Call Margarita, the Patient Host: bold and worth the wait, your crowd buys late and you have never once doubted them. Send them the chart, then build a gate that can absorb a rush. Host type 05, The Sold-Out Shirley, the Overachiever Host: zero proof and zero seats left, they buy on trust before you announce a thing. Ask your regulars why they came back. Host type 06, The Comp List Cosmo, the Generous Host: pink and always in demand, you are the one everyone hopes will pick up the phone. You need a written policy with your name nowhere on it.

Make yours

  • The Old Fashioned Ticket Stub. Bourbon, a sugar cube, a couple of dashes of bitters, a big piece of ice, orange peel. Stirred, never shaken, obviously.
  • The 75% Sold French 75. Gin, lemon, a little sugar, topped with champagne. Named after a field gun, which will make sense around day nine of refreshing.
  • The Walk-Up Whisky Sour. Whisky, lemon, sugar, egg white if you are feeling formal. Shaken hard, which is also how you arrive at the gate.
  • The Last Call Margarita. Tequila, lime, orange liqueur, salt on the rim. Best made in a batch, because they are all arriving at once.
  • The Sold-Out Shirley. Ginger ale, grenadine, a cherry. Everybody underestimates it right up until they order a second.
  • The Comp List Cosmo. Vodka, triple sec, lime, cranberry. Order one without apologizing for it.