...and counting. As of the 10th anniversary, on which there was a matinee and an evening show, the performance count came to 3,535. That makes Hamilton the 16th-longest-running show in Broadway history, and it's within striking distance of the original run of Miss Saigon, the 15th-longest-running at 4,092 performances. (Miss Saigon was actually the 14th-longest until Aladdin overtook it, coincidentally also on August 6, 2025.)

That's how many are spoken by the title character alone — one can imagine why Burr tells him to "talk less"! That means the various actors who have played Hamilton on Broadway have collectively spoken 21,934,675 words over 10 years.

Between all of Hamilton's characters, Miranda added, the word "freedom" has been said 38,885 times as of the 10th anniversary.

In 2015, Hamilton premiered at The Public Theater off Broadway, extending twice before near-immediately transferring to Broadway's Richard Rodgers Theatre and remaining there ever since. The show has since gone on to global fame with major productions in Chicago, London's West End, Germany, Australia, and Puerto Rico, plus multiple U.S. and international tours that have brought Hamilton to dozens more venues and millions more audience members.

Look at where you are; look at where you started! After a decade, multiple people involved with the Public Theater world premiere are still working at Hamilton on Broadway. They include six musicians, six backstage crew, two wardrobe staff, two box office staff, company manager Brig Berney (who compiled the stats Miranda shared), and Thayne Jasperson, an ensemble member with a featured role as loyalist Samuel Seabury in the song "Farmer Refuted."

The original cast album contains 46 songs, but one brief musical interlude, "Tomorrow There'll Be More of Us" (or the "Laurens Interlude") is included on stage but not in the show. Hamilton is almost entirely sung- and rapped-through, so most musical numbers flow directly into each other with little to no dialogue in between.

The 47-song count also doesn't include the many cut songs from early drafts of Hamilton, some of which were later recorded and released on the companion album The Hamilton Mixtape.

In the fastest sections of this number performed by Marquis de Lafayette, there are 6.3 words per second. As such, "Guns and Ships" is the world record holder for fastest Broadway rap, narrowly beating out "Getting Married Today” from the Stephen Sondheim musical Company, whose fastest parts have 6.2 words per second.

Hamilton sings this lyric in "Say No To This," a song about his affair with Mariah Reynolds that eventually blew up into America's first sex scandal. To help with Mariah's supposed troubles at home, he gave her $30 — which would be equivalent to $700-800 today! Some inflation calculators even estimate the modern equivalent to be over $1,000.

In 1788, Hamilton teamed up with John Jay and James Madison to write essays in support of the then-new U.S. Constitution, collectively published as The Federalist Papers. They had planned to write 25 essays in six months, but ended up writing 85.

As Burr details in the song "Non-Stop": "John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote 29. Hamilton wrote the other 51!" May we all channel Hamilton when we have writer's block.

Places, fire! Three different duels happen at each performance of Hamilton: between John Laurens and Charles Lee, Philip Hamilton and George Eacker, and of course, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr. They are respectively set to the songs "Ten Duel Commandments," "Blow Us All Away," and "The World Was Wide Enough." A total of 10,602 total duels had been staged as of the 10th anniversary.

It takes a lot of moving parts to keep Hamilton running — literally. A massive central turntable is key to the staging of many scenes, and it's taken over 100,000 individual cues to make sure it starts and stops moving at the right moments. Think that's a lot? It's nothing compared to the 3,025,960 lighting cues!

That's a lot of tricorn hats, red coats, and ruffled collars! The costumes of Hamilton, designed by two-time Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell, combine 18th- and 19th-century aesthetics with modern details, and each piece and its color has a story.

For example, Hamilton's green coat represents his association with money and America's financial system, and the muted beiges worn by the ensemble represent the "blank canvas" that was the newly independent America, being created and shaped as a nation from scratch.

The week of May 7, 2025, almost two months to the day before its 10th anniversary, Hamilton hit another milestone: Its original cast album, released in September 2015, became the first to hit 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart. Clearly, fans have been listening to Miranda's tunes non-stop!

But perhaps the most famous number associated with Hamilton is 10, as the title character's face has appeared on the $10 bill since 1929. That's why he's called the "$10 Founding Father without a father" in the lyrics of the opening number, and it's why Hamilton lottery tickets are only $10 each for prime seats. And of course, the show's 10th Broadway anniversary — affectionately called HamilTen — makes that number even more significant.

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