Silhouettes make Top 4 for 'America's Got Talent'

Silhouettes, the shadow dancers led by Cedar Rapids native Lynne Waggoner-Patton, are one giant leap closer to $1 million.

The Denver-area dance troupe will perform Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, in the Final Four on "America's Got Talent."

The 42 dancers, ages 9 to 18, will join crooner Eugene Landau Murphy Jr., young rock band Poplyfe and glow-in-the-dark dancers Team iLuminate competing for viewer votes on the  popular NBC-TV talent show, where contestants vie for a million-dollar Las Vegas performing contract.

Waggoner-Patton, a 1983 graduate of Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School, moved to the Denver area in 1987 and runs A Rocky Mountain School of Dance and Performing Arts in Arvada, Colo.

Celebrity judge Sharon Osbourne called Silhouettes "exquisite" after they performed a story-dance to the Blessid Union of Souls' anthem "I Believe" during the qualifying round Tuesday, Sept. 6. After viewer votes were announced Wednesday, Howie Mandel told the jubilant dancers, "I can't tell you how excited I am for you."

The Final Four competition begins at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13, on NBC and the winner will be announced Wednesday, Sept. 14 , in a two-hour extravaganza beginning at 7 p.m.

WATCH the Silhouettes' Sept. 6 performance here: