This weekend I went to see Hamilton in Chicago. After winning 11 of 16 Tony Award nominations and endless praise from audiences, was I afraid that this "hip-hopera" would not live up to the hype? Absolutely not! I went into the theater with full anticipation of being bedazzled. The lights were dimmed, the curtain was pulled, and the magic began to unfold.

After the show, everyone rose in joyous uproar, including myself. I was not disappointed in the slightest. I loved this musical. The acting, the singing, the story. All of it surpassed any idea I had built up in my head. For the duration of the show, I couldn't help thinking to myself how much of a genius Lin-Manuel Miranda is. The extensive historical knowledge alone needed to create a phenomenon of this caliber is outstanding. Then to combine that with the brilliant melodies, harmonies, and flow of the enthralling musical numbers... bewildering.

The impetus behind writing a show such as Hamilton was credit. Not necessarily credit for the writer, director, and star, but credit for the man who inspired the story. Alexander Hamilton's life was incredible and he did incredible things that altered our nation forever. He wrote, fought, invented, established, and founded. His story is one of exceptionality and it deserves to be told. The fact that Miranda was willing and able to accomplish this task makes him a modern hero.

However, if I have one critique it would be this: What about Peggy Schuyler's story? She is introduced in the fifth number of the first half of the show, but then her sisters consume the spotlight. Angelica and Eliza Schuyler are such prominent characters because both of their lives intermingle so closely with Hamilton's. Angelica is in love with Hamilton, but she cannot marry him because she is the oldest sister and he is penniless. Enter Eliza.

Peggy gets one more note of recognition when Hamilton states that she confides in him. Then she seems to cease to exist. It is as if she dropped off the front of the stage and was swallowed by the orchestra pit. The entire motivation behind this show is to provide justice for a man whose story deserves to be heard. What about Peggy's story? She gets sparse recognition, but I have doubts that her life was of little significance in the life of Alexander Hamilton.

She was the sister of both his wife and the woman who loved him, but who was she in her own right? She had a personality and life of her own that, in such close proximity to her sisters and Hamilton, would have affected theirs in a way that is most likely not ignorable.

She apparently confided in Hamilton, but what did she say? Her words, I'm sure, would have swayed Hamilton's actions, actions with the power to affect the entire course of history (which they did).

Did she ever marry?

Did she ever have children?

Where was she for her sisters when the news about Hamilton's affair surfaced? Or when her nephew, Philip Hamilton, died?

Maybe she did not accomplish monumental tasks in her life that embedded themselves in history as the accomplishments of Hamilton and Eliza did, but her life certainly influenced theirs. All I am asking for is closure with this character. That is my only criticism of Hamilton.

Praise be to Lin Manuel Miranda for the theatrical genius he has presented to this world. Praise be to Alexander Hamilton for being a founding father of our blessed country. Praise be to Peggy, wherever the path of her life led.

If you get an opportunity to see this show, I highly recommend that you seize it. Spectacles like this are once in a lifetime.