We’ve been seeing the same face on the ten dollar bill for as long as we can remember, but not many have cared about it until recently. Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, now has a musical written about him. This isn’t your average Broadway show, though, as this show features some pretty spit-fire founding fathers.

Hamilton, based on the biography Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and follows the life Hamilton. The musical is of the hip-hop genre, most of the songs a mix of rap and traditional musical singing.

It follows the life of Hamilton, an orphan born in the Caribbean Islands, from when he came to New York, throughout his political career and personal life. It continues after the Revolution and finishes with his death.

Having premiered last summer, people have been obsessed with Hamilton for about a year; the frenzy has been growing recently, since the show is coming to Chicago at the end of this month.

“I listen to Hamilton constantly, “ said junior Maria Carlson. “I wish I could get tickets, but so does everyone else on the planet.”

Tickets to Hamilton are now several hundred dollars each, a testament to how popular the show has become. However, it is not only popular with students– history and social studies teachers are also fans of the musical.

“I think that it’s given people an interest in history,” said APUSH teacher Mrs. Iverson. “You find more people buying the new Alexander Hamilton biography, [and] you see more people trying to understand that period of history.”

The Revolutionary period of American history has certainly been making a comeback; those who listen to Hamilton will probably be able to tell you more about the fight for independence than the average teenager.

“I could tell you who wrote the Federalist papers, how many were written, and how many each author wrote thanks to track 23,” said Esther Povh, junior.

Even if you aren’t all that interested in musicals, or even history, Hamilton is without a doubt worth a listen.

“The musical, anything that can touch off this love of country and this understanding of what’s revolutionary [and] how finance works, makes us a better country,” said Iverson.