Sheen, formerly the highest-paid actor on US television in his sitcom "Two and a Half Men" who had set out to redeem himself in a touring stage show dubbed, "My Violent Torpedo of Truth: Defeat is Not an Option," opened his new act in Detroit on Saturday and received heckles and boos from the audience.

But the show went on to its second performance in Chicago on Sunday night in front of a far friendlier crowd with a changed format that deleted some video sequences, sketches and long monologues from the Detroit show and replaced them with an interview-style format, according to media reports.

"The show is now more of a talk show format, with the fired 'Two and a Half Men' star finally taking some questions from the crowd, burning through cigarettes, looking spaced out and telling wild and crazy stories that make Charlie Sheen well ... Charlie Sheen," wrote a blogger on the website, ChicagoNow, an online community for the city.

The new style kept Sheen from going on boring, meandering rants about his recent life of personal and career turmoil and kept him on target with his off-the-cuff, telling comments on Hollywood stardom, past drug use and girlfriends.