Broadway smash 'Hamilton' is hitting the road

It just got a little easier to see Hamilton. 

The hit Broadway musical, which follows the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton with a hip-hop score and a cast almost entirely of people of color, is hitting the road with a national tour that will begin in 2017. The tour will kick off in San Francisco in March 2017, running at the city's SHN Orpheum Theater for 21 weeks. It will then move to Los Angeles and run from  Aug. 11 to Dec. 30 at the Hollywood Pantages Theater.

The musical, written, composed by and starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, is one of the hardest tickets to get on Broadway currently, with shows sold out months in advance and ticket prices soaring. The show's popular lottery, which offers $10 discount tickets to the lucky few who get drawn, recently moved from an in-person drawing to a digital one and the site crashed from high traffic on its first day.

An open-ended run of the musical in Chicago was announced in December. That production will begin on Sept. 27 of this year. PBS has also announced it will air a behind-the-scenes documentary about the musical, Hamilton's America, this fall.