Event Comment: Archer by
Mr King.
Cherry first time
Miss Jarratt pretty well. Sga Pacini danc'd for
the first time. She is a small figure, not much Elegance but was very well received (
Hopkins Diary). Agreement with Sga Paccini, 20 June 1775: "I do agree for my partner,
Mr Willoughby Lacy, and myself, to engage
Signora Paccini as first dancer at our
Theatre,
the ensuing season, which commences
the first week in September 1775, and finishes
the end of May 1776; for which
the said Signora shall receive from us, by weekly or monthly payments as she pleases,
the sum of three hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling, and she is likewise to have a benefit in course of salary, and at
the best time of
the year, for which she is to dance whenever she is called upon, to
the best of her power and abilities. This engagement
the managers of
the Theatre Royal in
Drury Lane engage to fulfill on
their part, under
the penalty of five-hundred pounds sterling. Witness my hand this nineteenth day of June 1775." (Signed.)
David Garrick for Willoughby Lacy and himself (
Boaden, Private Correspondence of Garrick, II, 63).
The Comedy of
The School for Lovers oblig'd to be deferr'd. Receipts: #153 19s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem
Afterpiece Title: The Theatrical Candidates
Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates
Dance: II: A Grand New Ballet, call'd The Savage Hunters-Slingsby first appearance this season, Grimaldi, Como, Giorgi, Sga Crespi, Sga Paccini, first appearance on the English Stage