Got Talent has quickly become the metro's premier talent competition. Returning this summer for its eighth season, Got Talent boasts the most talented performers in Greater Kansas City. Participants will compete to win one of four scholarships.
Congratulations to those moving on to the finale on June 9!
Got Talent will be held on Saturday, June 9, 2018 at 7pm at the Lee's Summit High School Performing Arts Center. Tickets only $15 per person!
Talented judges with performing experience are key to the
competition. See our Season 8 judges!
Sponsors receive valuable marketing benefits while contributing to the well being of families, children and the community.
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performers will compete for a chance to win one of four scholarships: $3,000, $1,500, $1,000 and $500.
The competition is
open to youth 18 years old and younger and all types of talent giving performers an opportunity to showcase their unique talents on stage. This is a true variety
show format with singers, dancers, magicians, jugglers, comedians, animal acts and any category in between.
The talent search begins with auditions in April before a panel of judges. Last year over 55 hopeful acts auditioned for the chance of
moving on to the finale. Twenty acts are then selected to perform in the show in June and compete for the scholarships.
Got Talent is a fundraiser to benefit Lee's Summit CARES, a nonprofit community coalition dedicated to
preventing youth substance abuse and violence, empowering positive parenting and promoting exemplary character. For more information
about Lee's Summit CARES visit
lscares.org.
Michael Dragen is honored to be hosting Got
Talent. Mr. Dragen has appeared locally on the stages of the New Theatre Restaurant, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, American Heartland
Theatre, Coterie Theatre, Theater for Young America, Musical Theatre Heritage, and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
Michael has
degrees in Music Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Central Missouri, and is a proud faculty
member of the band department in the Liberty School District. Dragen has also written several interactive comedic murder mysteries
for the Kansas City based "Mystery Train" dinner theatre.
He and his wife, Lindsey, are also proud founding members of Summit Theatre Group,
a community theatre organization in Lee's Summit.
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