Feature profiles, morning-show appearances, editorial photography, and the occasional client press release. A curated selection below. Scott is available for press interviews and on-air segments alongside clients.
Inquire About PressA one-minute segment with the Kansas City Chiefs and one speechless superfan.
Super Bowl tickets, not a rabbit, were pulled out of a hat Monday for KCMO woman. KSHB 41 News · Steve Kaut
During the 2024 season, Scott worked with a local client to surprise a long-time Kansas City Chiefs superfan with real Super Bowl LIX tickets, hidden inside a theatrical reveal built around a magic routine. KSHB 41 News picked up the story, aired a feature on the December 30 broadcast, and ran it under the headline above on kshb.com.
Chiefs players were on hand for the presentation. The reveal landed exactly as planned. The recipient was speechless.
With a Taylor Swift impersonator at a KC Chiefs event, 2025.
You meet interesting people working Kansas City events. Sometimes it's the visiting CEO. Sometimes it's the couple that hired you five years ago and still tells the story. And sometimes it's a Taylor Swift impersonator at a Chiefs party.
Twenty-five years in this town, and the nights still surprise him.
Union Station · KC Live! at the Power & Light District · Bellagio, Las Vegas · Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts · InterContinental Kansas City · Chicken N Pickle · Children's Mercy · Science City · Hallmark headquarters · Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City · Overland Park Convention Center · Uptown Theater
Once, Scott opened a meeting in the Lockton board's main room on the Country Club Plaza. The room laughed, leaned in, and clapped at the end. For about thirty seconds he was convinced he'd just closed a major piece of business — until the agenda started, and he remembered the entertainment is what loosens the room before the deal, not the deal itself.
Lockton has hired him a few times since.
I have a new amazing routine that is getting great reactions… someone's signed card ends up in a solid block of ice.
435 Magazine brought Scott into a Crossroads photo studio for a dedicated editorial shoot. After testing a handful of props, the photographer landed on the now-iconic composition of cards cascading from his hand mid-throw. The accompanying interview ranged from his preschool origin story to the signed-card-in-ice routine he was, at the time, just starting to close his shows with.
The appetizer is magical. Scott Henderson wows local diners with his restaurant magician act.
Tim Engle's profile caught Scott at twenty, a KU student earning his keep doing close-up magic at Wood Roasted Pizza in Overland Park, then at Applebee's, then at TGI Friday's. Twenty-five-plus years on, the same skills close nights at the Federal Reserve and Hallmark headquarters. The voice is older; the work is the same.
Let me show you something that's pretty cool. Then act like you don't know how you do it either.
A service-journalism feature from the Kansas City Star that distilled Scott's approach into a single quotable rule and gave readers a small trick they could try at the table that night. The rule has held up since: the fooling is the point, but the performer being a friend in the room is what keeps the night from feeling like a duel.
The third, fourth and fifth graders in the audience — and even the teachers — were amazed as fourth grader Alexa Hancox lay on a table that began to levitate off the ground… but it was the underlying message that will stick with students in the long run: Be kind.— The Leaven · December 2021
Coverage of Scott’s anti-bullying school program at Nativity Parish School in Leawood, KS, performed for the school’s third annual Kindness Week. The Leaven — the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, distributed across the metro’s Catholic schools and parishes — covered the assembly with a full feature including the levitation finale that closed Scott’s performance. The program continues to be booked across Kansas City metro Catholic, public, and private schools.
I had one student already who told me he needs to meet with me. Something struck him in the performance and he wants to get something off his chest that he hasn't told anyone.— Principal Nancy Hicks · St. Mary's Elementary
Coverage of the anti-bullying school program Scott has run for two decades. The principal's quote — given the same morning the show was performed — explains why the program keeps getting re-booked: well-built performance magic creates a kind of attention that conventional assemblies can't, and that attention sometimes opens a door a child has been keeping closed.
Magic spells increased pizza sales.
The headline was the editor's; the data was the restaurant manager's. Scott's Wednesday-night residency at the Lawrence Pizza Co. measurably moved covers. The piece is one of several from a stretch of regional press during Scott's KU years. The Lawrence Journal-World, the KU Report, and the Daily Kansan all ran features on him during the same period.
The client told Scott: "We want you to go on with us for our TV spot because we're boring, and you're fun and exciting."
The American Heart Association, the Ronald McDonald House, and other non-profits have brought Scott along to their Fox 4 KC Morning Show segments specifically to help draw broader public attention to their events. Scott is comfortable on camera, used to live-segment pacing, and happy to be included in on-air press work for charity partners.
"One hundred and fifty five-star Google reviews is its own kind of press coverage."The math speaks · see the reviews
Three wedding proposals across twenty-five years: Scott's own, plus two more he was hired to help lead. The brides said yes both times. The proposal effect doesn't go in regular rotation — the right room and the right person have to line up first — and Scott prefers when those moments stay rare.
The night the issue arrived in the mail.
The 435 Magazine photoshoot was its own story. The magazine sent Scott down to a photo studio in the Crossroads, tried a handful of props, and ended up landing on the now-iconic shot of cards thrown into the air.
This is the night the issue showed up at his house. The grin is not, technically, part of the act.
Last week's audience: about twenty-five nuns, at an event sponsored by generous benefactors. Yes, the arm-chopper was utilized. Two sisters volunteered. They loved it.
Scott is available for press interviews, morning-show appearances alongside clients, editorial photo features, and non-profit press work. Press kit materials (high-resolution photography, biographical overview, client references) available on request within 24 hours.