Billy Rose's Aquacade was a music, dance and swimming show produced by Billy Rose at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1937.

Later Aquacade moved to the 1939 New York World's Fair where it was the most successful production of the fair (Lowe). The Art Deco 11,000 seat amphitheatre was designed by architects Sloan & Robertson. Shows were staged by John Murray Anderson. The pool and the 300 by 200 foot stage could be hidden behind a lighted 40 foot high curtain of water.

The show starred Olympian Eleanor Holm Jarrett. Rose married Holm after divorcing his first wife, comedian Fanny Brice. Future MGM star Esther Williams and Johnny Weissmuller, the star of the movie Tarzan were Aquacade stars too.

For the New York Aquacade, Rose interviewed 5,000 applicants and chose 500 dancer, actors and swimmers. Gertrude Ederle, a Flushing, Queens resident was the first woman to swim the English Channel was an Aquacade star. Queens Borough President Donald R. Manes dedicated the pool to her in 1978.

In 1940, Aquacade also opened in San Francisco at the Golden Gate International Exposition.