August 2007 - Act I of the piano-vocal reduction completed! The score stands at 160 pages, with about 120 left to edit.

January 2007 - Work continues on the piano-vocal score.

December 2006 - The full score was freshly revised and typeset. New demo recordings of all the main songs in the score were completed.

Spring 2001 - Josh Tyra was awarded the University of Chicago's Elsie F. Filippi Memorial Prize in Poetry for the lyrics of The Romance of the Rose.