Showboat (disambiguation)

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

Showboat, Show Boat or Showboats may also refer to:

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

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