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Rick Steiner Dies; 'Producers' Producer And Broadway Gambler Was 69 by Jeremy Gerard

Richard Steiner was never interested in sailing smoothly into the Cincinnati toy business his father and two uncles founded and which produced Play-Doh. A free-spirited adventurer, he was nevertheless interested in real dough and made a goodly sum of it on Broadway as a producer of Big River, Hairspray and The Producers, among other box-office hits. As engaging a character as any in the many shows h…

SOURCE: Deadline at 11:36AM on November 5, 2016

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