question: Maria Mercedes had a prole in the Australian production of the musical created by whom?
answer: Maury Yeston
context: Title: Maria Mercedes (actress)
  Passage: 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".
  Title: Jessy Mendiola
  Passage: 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".
  Title: 2007 Australian Production Car Championship
  Passage: The 2007 Australian Production Car Championship was a CAMS sanctioned Australiann motor racing title open to Group 3E Series Production Cars.  The championship, which was administered by the Production Car Association of Australia, was promoted as the Shannons Australian Production Car Championship.  It was the 14th Australian Production Car Championship.
  Title: Nine (musical)
  Passage: 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.
citations: Maria Mercedes (actress) Nine (musical)