The Music City Queen on the Cumberland River, Nashville.

A showboat was a form of theatre that travelled along the waterways of the United States, especially along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Image File history File links MusicCityQueen. ... Image File history File links MusicCityQueen. ... The Music City Queen at Opry Mills. ... Length 1,106 km Elevation of the source 480 m Average discharge 3,217 m³/s Area watershed 46,830 km² Origin Oven Fork, Kentucky Mouth Ohio River Basin countries United States The Cumberland River is an important waterway in the southern United States. ... For other cities named Nashville, see Nashville (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Drama (art form) be merged into this article or section. ... The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning great river (gichi-ziibi big river at its headwaters), is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. ... Ohio River viewed from Liberty Hill in Ripley, Ohio. ...

British-born actor William Chapman created the first showboat, named the "Floating Theatre", in Pittsburgh in 1831. He and his family performed plays with added music and dance at stops along the waterways. After reaching New Orleans, they got rid of the boat and went back to Pittsburgh in a steam boat in order to perform the process once again the year after. City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ... Leopold I 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

Showboats had declined by the Civil War, but began again in 1878 and focused on melodrama and vaudeville. Major boats of this period included the New Sensation, New Era, Water Queen, and the Princess. With the improvement of roads, the rise of the automobile, motion pictures, and the maturation of the river culture, showboats declined again. In order to combat this development, they grew in size and became more colorful and elaborately designed in 1900's. These boats included the Golden Rod, the Sunny South, the Cotton Blossom, and the New Showboat. 1878 (MDCCCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... Vaudeville is a style of multi-act theatre which flourished in North America from the 1880s through the 1920s. ...

Jerome Kern's musical comedy Show Boat (1927) and its film versions (1929, 1936, 1951) showed this type of theater. Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American popular composer. ... Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (with the notable exception of Bill, which was originally written for Kern in 1918 by P. G. Wodehouse but reworked by Hammerstein for Show Boat). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Show Boat is the name of a musical film based on the stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II, which was adapted from the novel by Edna Ferber. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

Showboating

Based on the gaudy look of showboats, the term "showboat" also came to mean someone who wants his or her ostentatious behavior to be seen at all costs. This term is particularly applied in sports, where a showboat (or sometimes "showboater") will do something flashy before actually achieving his or her goal.

Oft-cited examples of showboating include Leon Lett's grocery-bag-carrying of a recovered football (which he then had swatted out of his hand before the goal line) in the Super Bowl, and Lindsey Jacobellis's grab of her snowboard which caused her to crash right before the finish of the Snowboard Cross final at the 2006 Winter Olympics, costing her a first-place finish. Leon Lett (born October 12, 1968) is a former American Football defensive tackle who played for the Dallas Cowboys (1991-2000) and the Denver Broncos (2001). ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... The winning Super Bowl team receives the Vince Lombardi Trophy. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A snowboard with boot bindings A snowboard is a board ridden by a rider in the sport of snowboarding. ... Boarder Cross is a relatively new type of snowboard competition. ... Neve and Gliz, the 2006 Olympics mascots, on display in Turin The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, were held in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. ...

See also

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