2001

• June 28, 2001: Centennial Kick-Off Event
  
  
• June 28, 2001: Centennial website (www.rr2002.com) launched
  
  
• June 28, 2001: New Rodgers portrait unveiled
  
  
• Fall 2001: U.S. National Tour of SOUTH PACIFIC begins
  
  
• October 2, 2001: Previews begin of FLOWER DRUM SONG at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles (runs October 14 - December 2, 2001)
  
  
• October 3-7, 2001: THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE presented at Ovations! in Chicago
  
  
• November 4, 2001: PBS Premiere of "Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds" from Thirteen/WNET New York's "American Masters"
  
  
• November 6, 2001: Publication of "Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers" by Meryle Secrest
  
  
• December, 2001: National tour of CINDERELLA resumes
  
  
• Christmas 2001: SOUTH PACIFIC begins performances at the Royal National Theatre, London
  
  
• Late 2001: THE SOUND OF MUSIC begins performances at Saffle Theatre, Stockholm
  
  

• February 4, 2002: Benefit at Juilliard School (New York City) to honor Richard Rodgers, co-hosted by Julie Andrews
  
  
• February 14, 2002: Evening of Rodgers & Hart love songs at Weill Recital Hall, New York City
  
  
• February 23, 2002: Previews of OKLAHOMA! begin at the Gershwin Theater, New York, opening March 21
  
  
• March 7, 2002: Roundabout's THE BOYS FROM SYRACUSE opens at the American Airlines Theater, New York City
  
  
• March 2002: ON YOUR TOES opens at the Leicester Haymarket, England
  
  
• March 2002: OK! The Story of OKLAHOMA! to be republished
  
  
• March 23, 2002: New York Symphony Stage hosts a Wall-to-Wall Rodgers tribute 11:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
  
  
• Spring 2002: Encores! (New York City) presents NO STRINGS
  
  
• Spring 2002: Centennial edition of Rodgers' autobiography "Musical Stages" to be published
  
  
• Spring 2002: Bernadette Peters' Rodgers and Hammerstein album to be released by Angel Records
  
  
• April 2002: A U.K. tour of THE KING AND I begins
  
  
• April 2002: Japanese language revival of THE KING AND I opens in Osaka
  
  
• April 2002: Boston Pops' all-Rodgers album is released by RCA Victor
  
  
• April - August 2002: New York Historical Society hosts a Rodgers exhibit and four consecutive concerts, April 1-8-15-22
  
  
• April 2, 9 and 16, 2002: Metropolitan Museum of Art will devote its entire Spring 2002 lecture series, "The Sound of Broadway," to Richard Rodgers
  
  
• April 3 - May 19, 2002: The Papermill Playhouse, New Jersey, presents THE KING AND I
  
  
• April 2002: Village Light Opera Group presents DEAREST ENEMY
  
  
• April 5, 2002: New York Pops presents "100 Years of Richard Rodgers" at Carnegie Hall
  
  
• April 11-13; 18-20, 2002: REX performed at the University of Findlay, Ohio
  
  
• April 14, 2002: Concert/Lecture hosted by Professor Micheal Anders, "The Evolution of REX: The Musical" at the University of Findlay
  
  
• April 15 - August 31, 2002: Performing Arts Library, San Francisco holds Rodgers exhibit
  
  
• April 19 - May 12, 2002: BY JUPITER at the 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco
  
  
• Spring 2002: Several talks and performances of the Rodgers Centennial at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  
  
• Spring 2002: Museum of Television and Radio presents a screening series of Rodgers broadcasts
  
  
• Late Spring, 2002: "The Richard Rodgers Reader" is published by Oxford Press
  
  
• Late Spring 2002: Les Ballet Trockedero de Monte Carlo will stage "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" in New York
  
  
• May 16, 2002: PEGGY-ANN to be performed at Carnegie Hall/ Weill Recital Hall
  
  
• May 22, 2002-June 9, 2002: ALLEGRO to be performed at 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco
  
  
• June 2002: Rodgers exhibit begins at Museum of the City of New York
  
  
• June 6, 2002: Concert performance of CAROUSEL at Carnegie Hall, New York City
  
  
• June 19 - July 17, 2002: PEGGY-ANN to be performed at 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco
  
  
• June 20, 2002: Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences hosts a Rodgers tribute, Los Angeles
  
  
• June 26-27, 2002: London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra presents an all-star gala Rodgers program at Albert Hall
  
  
• July 4, 2002: Rodgers sequence during Boston Pops 4th of July program
  
  
• July 2002: Richard Rodgers jazz evening at the 92nd Street Y.
  
  
• July 2002: Museum of Modern Art hosts a two-part exhibition of films with Rodgers music
  
  
• Summer 2002: Danish Radio Orchestra produces a series of Rodgers concerts
  
  
• Summer 2002: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra presents a Rodgers tribute
  
  
• Summer 2002: Rodgers concert as part of BBC's "Proms" series at the Royal Albert Hall
  
  
• September 2002: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., begins its 2002-3 Richard Rodgers season
  
  
• October 2-6, 2002: A CONNECTICUT YANKEE to be performed at 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco
  
  
• October 18 - November 3, 2002: Rodgers is central figure in International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff
  
  
• October 2002: Rodgers will be celebrated in two concerts given by The Mabel Mercer Foundation/New York Cabaret convention
  
  
• October 2002: Career Transition for Dancers Gala, New York, honoring Richard Rodgers
  
  
• October 2002: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (a book of Rodgers and Hammerstein-inspired illustrations) is published
  
  
• Fall 2002: London's "Lost Musicals" series presents ALLEGRO at the Linbury Theatre, Covent Garden
  
  
• Fall 2002: Rodgers exhibit at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
  
  
• Fall 2002: Rodgers exhibition and symposium at the Smithsonian Museum of American History, Washington D.C.
  
  
• November 1, 2002: Chicago Humanities Festival will present a Rodgers concert
  
  
• November 1-17, 2002: 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco, present PIPE DREAM
  
  
• November 29-December 5, 2002: EVER GREEN to be performed at 42nd Street Moon, San Francisco
  
  
• November 29-30, 2002: Rodgers concert at NHK Hall, Tokyo, Japan
  
  
• November 2002: Rodgers receives Japan Musical Award in Tokyo
  
  

• Yale University Press to publish Rodgers Biography