Question: Maria Mercedes had a prole in the Australian production of the musical created by whom?

full_context: Document 1: Jessy Mendiola: Jessica Mendiola Tawile (born 3 December 1992), popularly known as Jessy Mendiola, is a Filipino actress. She played the role of Maria Mercedes Alegre in the 2013 remake of the 1992 Mexican telenovela "Maria Mercedes".
Document 2: Melissa Madden Gray: Melissa Madden Gray, stage name Meow Meow, is an Australian-born actress, dancer and cabaret performer who tours internationally. Gray has been particularly active in the UK where she appeared in "La Clique" at the Roundhouse and created the rôle of the "Maîtresse" in the West End musical adaptation of "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" at the Gielgud Theatre. In 2010 Meow Meow was awarded the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize. In January 2011 she premiered "Meow Meow in Concert" for three nights at the Apollo Theatre on London's West End. She was named Best Cabaret Performer at the 2012 Helpmann Awards for her show, "Little Match Girl". She debuted "An Audience with Meow Meow" at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California as part of their Fall 2014 season.
Document 3: 9½ Weeks: 9½ Weeks (originally titled Nine ½ Weeks) is a 1986 American erotic romantic drama film directed by Adrian Lyne with a screenplay by Sarah Kernochan, Zalman King, and Patricia Louisanna Knop. The film is based on the 1978 memoir of the same name by Austrian-American author Ingeborg Day. It stars Kim Basinger as Elizabeth McGraw and Mickey Rourke as John Gray. McGraw is a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief yet intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker. The film was completed in 1984, but not released until February 1986.
Document 4: Nine (2009 live-action film): Nine is a 2009 romantic musical drama film directed and produced by Rob Marshall and written by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella. The film is an adaptation of the 1982 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film "8½". In addition to songs from the stage musical, all written by Maury Yeston, the film has three original songs, also written by Yeston. The ensemble principal cast consists of Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench, Fergie, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman, and Sophia Loren.
Document 5: West Side Story: West Side Story is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and conception and choreography by Jerome Robbins. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Romeo and Juliet".
Document 6: Passion (musical): Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's film "Passione d'Amore", itself adapted from the novel "Fosca" by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and manipulation. "Passion" is notable for being one of the few projects that Stephen Sondheim himself conceived, along with "Sweeney Todd" and "Road Show".
Document 7: Marina Prior: Marina Prior (born 18 October 1963) is an Australian soprano and actress with a career mainly in musical theatre. From 1990 to 1993, she starred as the original Christine Daaé in the Australian premiere of "The Phantom of the Opera", opposite Anthony Warlow and later Rob Guest.
Document 8: Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo: Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo is widely considered the first lady of Philippine musical theatre. She is well known for her roles as Diana Goodman in "Next to Normal" and Mrs. Lovett alongside Audie Gemora as Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd". She is the artistic director for Resorts World Manila and a founding member of Actor's Actor Inc.
Document 9: Sweet Charity: Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon alongside John McMartin. It is based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for "Nights of Cabiria". However, where Fellini's black-and-white Italian film concerns the romantic ups-and-downs of an ever-hopeful dance hall hostess, in the musical the central character is a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance hall. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1966, where it was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, and also ran in the West End as well as having revivals and international productions.
Document 10: Nine (musical): Nine is a musical, initially created and written by Maury Yeston as a class-project in Lehman Engel's BMI Music Theatre Workshop in 1973. It was later developed with a book by Mario Fratti, and then again with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based also on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film "8½". It focuses on film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.
Document 11: Maria Venuti: Maria Francesia Anna Venuti (born, 1941) AM, is an Australian actress, entertainer and author, who has appeared in numerous television shows and film and theatre productions, for over 50 years. Her father was an Italian from Sicily, who came to Australia in 1926 and her mother, Bella who was 18 years younger than her father, was from Cairo, Egypt and came to Sydney Australia in 1939. Venuti is also a singer, as well as an accomplished pianist who is noted for her work in cabaret and supper clubs, including working throughout Asia. She has a daughter named Bianca by her previous husband, Tony; they are now divorced. She has a half sister, Gina and had a half brother Francesco, who died of Diphtheria . Venuti has written a memoir, called "A Whole Lot of Front".
Document 12: 9 to 5 (musical): 9 to 5: The Musical is a musical based on the 1980 movie of the same name, with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton. It features a book by Patricia Resnick, based on the screenplay by Resnick and Colin Higgins. The musical premiered in Los Angeles in September 2008, and opened on Broadway in April 2009. It received 15 Drama Desk Award nominations, the most received by a production in a single year, as well as four Tony Awards nominations. The Broadway production however was short-lived, closing in September 2009. A national tour of the US launched in 2010, followed by a UK premiere in 2012 and returns to the UK in 2017 in a new production at The Gatehouse in London with a West End cast, as part of a fringe festival.
Document 13: Linda Balgord: Linda Balgord is an award winning American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 United States tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical "Sunset Boulevard", being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of "Cats" and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I in "The Pirate Queen" on Broadway. She has also played the role of Madame Giry in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera", previously in the restaged North American tour, and currently on Broadway.
Document 14: Maria Mercedes (actress): Maria Mercedes is a Greek-Australian television, film and stage actress. Her notable roles include the original Australian productions of the musicals "Nine", "Sunset Boulevard" and "Love Never Dies".
Document 15: Anna O'Byrne: Anna O'Byrne is an Australian actress and soprano singer best known for her portrayal of Christine Daaé in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" and the original Australian production of Lloyd Webber's sequel, "Love Never Dies", for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award. O'Byrne has also portrayed Maria in "West Side Story", as well as Sister Sarah Brown in "Guys and Dolls". From 2016, O'Byrne has played Eliza Doolittle in the Julie Andrews directed production of "My Fair Lady" for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House, touring in 2017 to Brisbane, Melbourne and back to Sydney. She is currently based in London and performs internationally. Her performance career includes opera, theatre, concert, and film.
ground_truth: Maury Yeston