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Lee's Summit graduate Bryson Bruce got his start performing in musicals and plays in the Kansas City area. Now he's a touring cast member in one of the most popular musicals of our time.

Bryson Bruce, a graduate of Lee's Summit West High School and the University of Missouri, grew up performing in plays and musicals around the Kansas City area. Now he's a touring cast member in one of the most popular musicals of our time: "Hamilton."

Don Henry was a 1930s college kid from Dodge City, Kansas, who left everything he knew to join the fight against fascism. His life moved one music professor to put the story down in song.

After participating in local theatre and dance groups, these Kansas City natives now perform on Broadway and in national tours.

The national Broadway tour of "Hamilton" has been rescheduled to 2023 — instead of this September at the Music Hall.

A Kansas City doctor on the outbreak's front line, Kansas' Kickapoo and other native communities face the COVID-19 wave, doctors answer personal safety questions as stay-at-home orders taper, and a 9-year-old brings a Broadway favorite to Kansas City streets.

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People all over the world are obsessed with “The Wizard of Oz." But there is no place in the world where it has as much cultural value as in Kansas, where…