Showboat (disambiguation)

Showboat or show boat, is a boat which serves as a floating theater.

Showboat or Show Boat may also refer to:

People

• Showboat Fisher (1899 – 1994), an American baseball player

Arts, entertainment, and media

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

Television

• Showboaters, a 2011 British reality show

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

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