Seven Sisters

Other than the date that Maude Adams was in the play (1879), the only information I have found relates to the play itself, and obviously an earlier version.

=====A Pictorial History of the American Theatre: 100 Years 1860-1960 by Daniel Blum; Chilton Co. Book Division, 1960=====

In 1861 the Civil War brought a temporary depression to the theatre, followed a season later by a resurgence. The war hysteria helped four Uncle Tom's Cabin shows to thrive' simultaneously in New York. The 253 performances of actress-manager Laura Keene's Seven Sisters, described as "an operatic, spectacular, diabolic, musical, terpsichorean, farcical burletta," enjoyed the longest consecutive run up to that time. Miss Keene introduced the first Saturday matinées in 1863. That same year Lucille Western bought East Lynne outright from its author for $100 and proceeded to profit from it for years. Also in 1863 Augustin Daly, then a dramatic critic, produced his first play, Leah, the Forsaken starring Kate Bateman. And Lotta made her debut in New York.

=====A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America by Robert L. Gale; Greenwood Press, 1993=====

Continuing in her theater ( 1860- 1863), Keene presented The Seven Sisters, an 1860 adaptation by her salaried in-house dramatist Thomas H. De Walden but mostly by Keene herself of a German play--probably Die Töchter Luzifers ( "The Daughters of Lucifer"), a five-act farce by Wilhelm Friedrich, produced in Hamburg ( 1846) and performed in New York ( 1859). The Seven Sisters, a burlesque extravaganza which enjoyed the longest uninterrupted run of any New York production to its date (253 performances, 1860- 1861), starred Laura Keene as Diavoline, a daughter of Pluto who falls in love with a playwright and is banished to Coney Island! All this, and much else, to the tune of splendid eclectic music by Thomas Baker. Although the Civil War cut into her work, she carried on. For her first wartime season ( 1861- 1862), she presented other dramatic fare, old and new. For the next season ( 1862- 1863), she engaged two dramatic companies, put one on tour, and offered more old and new plays. Then she became a Roman Catholic convert (c. 1863), abruptly sold the Laura Keene Theatre ( 1864), acted with her touring company ( 1864- 1865), wrote a temperance play entitled The Workmen of America for it ( 1864), and performed in it ( 1864- 1865).

=====Curtain Time: The Story of the American Theater by Lloyd Morris; Random House, 1953=====

One of these musical spectacles, The Seven Sisters , achieved the phenomenal run of two hundred and fifty-three consecutive performances, and became so celebrated throughout the country that its name was adopted by New York's costliest, most luxurious brothel.