Rick Steiner, a Broadway producer who compiled a remarkable string of box-office hits that included “The Producers,” “Hairspray” and “Jersey Boys,” died on Thursday at his home in Cincinnati. He was 69.

Corky Steiner, his brother, said the cause had not yet been determined. Mr. Steiner had recently undergone open-heart surgery.

Mr. Steiner, who won five Tony Awards as a producer, was a Broadway anomaly with a colorful past in a wild assortment of businesses. He operated from his hometown, Cincinnati, and over the years assembled teams of investors that often included his childhood friends, notably Rocco Landesman, the president and later owner of the Jujamcyn Theater group, whom he first befriended as a boy in the 1950s at Camp Thunderbird in Bemidji, Minn.

When Mr. Landesman enlisted the singer and songwriter Roger Miller in the 1980s to write the music for “Big River,” a musical based on “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Mr. Steiner threw in his lot as an investor.