The Smartest Girl In the World.

 During one of the many stops on tour, we spent the night in San Antonio so we could wake up the next day and put on our show at the Magik Theatre. The night before load-in, we all went out to dinner somewhere along the River Walk and decided to get Mexican food.

While we were eating, I kept sneaking away from the table to go get margaritas. I’m not exactly sure how many I had by the end of the night, but I do remember that somewhere around margarita number three, I found a mariachi band along the River Walk looking to be hired. Naturally, I hired them. I brought them over to our table to surprise Roxanne, sing “Happy Birthday” to her, and give her a full mariachi birthday serenade. It was one of those completely random tour moments that somehow turned into one of my favorite memories from the trip.

 And then, at the end of the school semester, after our final show had wrapped up, Roxanne had the cast, crew, and audience stay for a few minutes while she gave a speech about the semester and everything we had accomplished together.

After she finished her speech, she had one more surprise. As a little payback for the time I had hired a mariachi band to serenade her in San Antonio, Roxanne surprised me—and everyone else—by bringing in a mariachi band of her own.

It was the perfect full-circle moment. What had started as a random, margarita-fueled joke along the San Antonio River Walk came all the way back around at the end of the semester. She definitely got me back.