15 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About Hamilton: An American Musical

Moving away now from the show itself, let's have a look at the early stages of Hamilton's development. When Miranda started writing the songs, his research into the lives of the main players - Alexander, Burr, George Washington, and so on - was a meticulous adventure.

Reading book after book about the Founding Father, Miranda also read many of Hamilton's letters and pamphlets. As he did this, he travelled across America to visit important sites featured in the American Revolution and Alexander's life. At one point, he and the show's director Thomas Kail even visited the place where Burr killed Alexander in their ill-fated duel, in New Jersey.

One of the most extraordinary places Miranda wrote and did research was the Morris-Jumel Mansion, which Washington used as a headquarters during the Revolutionary War.

Not all of Miranda's research was history based, however, as he also took inspiration from some of theatres greatest musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar and Les Miserables, which he stated was his favourite and the most inspirational.

Some of the books he read, if anyone's interested, included "The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr" by H. W. Brands, and "Affairs of Honour" by Joanne Freeman.