CEDAR RAPIDS — “I don’t think kids can do that.” That’s the wrong thing to say to Lynne Waggoner-Patton, but also the right thing. From that challenge sprang The Silhouettes, coming to the Paramount Theatre in Waggoner-Patton’s hometown Tuesday night, Nov. 20. A Denver company wanted her to create a show using photographs, shadows, imagery [...]

Television viewers have voted The Silhouettes into the finals for “America’s Got Talent.” The troupe was the first to advance during Wednesday night’s results episode for the popular NBC-TV talent show, where contestants vie for a million-dollar Las Vegas performing contract. The 42 Denver-area dancers, ages 9 to 18, are led by former Cedar Rapids resident [...]

America is discovering what Cedar Rapids audiences have known for years. Lynne (Waggoner) Patton has talent. Now a choreographer who owns a dance studio in the Denver metro area, her dance troupe, The Silhouettes, wowed the judges last Wednesday on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” The episode highlighted the Minneapolis auditions for the popular talent search, and was repeated Sunday. [...]