A showboat or show boat, is a boat which serves as a floating theater.
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Showboat, Show Boat or Showboats may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Show Boat (1959 cast album), featuring Shirley Bassey and Dora Bryan
- Show Boat (1988 cast album), featuring Karla Burns and Jerry Hadley
- Showboat (Kenny Dorham album), 1960
Novel and adaptations
- Show Boat (novel), by Edna Ferber
- Show Boat, a 1927 stage musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the Ferber novel
- Show Boat (1936 film), adapted by Oscar Hammerstein II and directed by James Whale, based on the stage musical
- Show Boat (1951 film), adapted by John Lee Mahin and directed by George Sidney, based on the stage musical
- Show Boat (1929 film), adapted by Charles Kenyon and directed by Harry A. Pollard, based on the Ferber novel
- Show Boat, a 1927 stage musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II based on the Ferber novel
Radio
- Maxwell House Show Boat, a program broadcast on NBC radio (1933-1935)
Hotels and casinos
- Showboat Atlantic City, a hotel and former casino located in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- Showboat East Chicago, an East Chicago casino currently known as the Ameristar Casino East Chicago
- Showboat Hotel & Casino, a Las Vegas casino later known as the Castaways Hotel and Casino
- Showboat, Inc., a United States-based organization in the casino and entertainment industry
Sports
- Memphis Showboats, a former United States Football League team
- Memphis Showboats (2022), a United States Football League team
- South Texas Showboats, a former basketball team in the American Basketball Association
People
- Showboat Fisher (1899–1994), American baseball player
- Robert Hall (basketball) (1927–2014), American basketball player and member of the Harlem Globetrotters nicknamed "Showboat"
- LaMont "ShowBoat" Robinson (born 1961), American basketball player, businessman and founder and owner/player of the Harlem Clowns
Other uses
- Showboat (dragster), an exhibition dragster built in the 1960s
- Showboat, the nickname of American Battleship USS North Carolina (BB-55)
- Showboating, showing off
See also
- Showboaters, a 2011 British reality show
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