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.
