The big-budget musical The Far Pavilions will end its run at London's Shaftesbury Theatre on September 17. It had been booking through November.
Set against India's fight for independence from the English, The Far Pavilions tells the story of an Englishman, Ashton Pelham-Martyn, brought up as a Hindu, and his forbidden relationship with an Indian princess, Anjuli. The tuner feature music by Philip Henderson and book and lyrics by Stephen Clark co-lyricist of Martin Guerre and is based on the popular M.M. Kaye novel of the same name.
The show, directed by Gale Edwards, received mixed reviews when it opened in the West End on April 14. Matt Wolf of Variety wrote: "The spring flurry of West End musicals gets off to a sluggish start with The Far Pavilions, a beautifully designed bore that plays like a throwback to a musical era for which today's auds are unlikely to be nostalgic. Through-sung with any number of syrupy anthems that could be chopped and changed at will, show belongs to the sober-minded, uninspired school of Les Miz lite--just one reason its nearly three-hour running time amounts to such heavy going."
