Charlie Sheen to Chicago: Don't be
like Detroit
Charlie Sheen took his road show to Chicago and urged the audience not to be like the one in Detroit, where the actor was heckled, booed and eventually abandoned by the crowd.
Sheen had updated the show for his Chicago experience — and promptly dissed the Motor City.
Taking the stage as the crowd chanted, “Detroit sucks, Detroit sucks,” Sheen urged the crowd to listen when he talked and not be like Detroit.
He skipped the opening comic who bombed in Detroit and told a heckler to go back to Detroit. He made it to the intermission with no booing, TMZ reported, and told more stories of his drug use and partying, Twitter reports said.
People lined up outside the historic 3,600-seat Chicago Theatre before the show said they had low expectations after what they heard and read about Sheen’s performance Saturday night.
“We figured we’d try it out and see what happens, and if it’s bad, we’ll leave,” said Katie Iglehart, 23, of Chicago, who was attending the show with a friend.
Sheen’s Chicago performance started out with a standing ovation. Audience members were cheering and whistling early on during the performance as Sheen sat on stage answering questions from a master of ceremonies.
In an obscenity-laced statement Sheen urged the crowd “not to become (expletive) Detroit tonight. Let’s show Detroit how it’s (expletive) done.”
The Chicago performance was the second show of Sheen’s “My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is Not an Option” tour. It was sold out shortly after tickets went on sale last month.
The 20-city variety show tour started in Detroit with thunderous applause but ended 70 minutes later. In between, Sheen tried to appease his audience with rants, a rapper and a question and answer session, ultimately concluding the first show was “an experiment.”
The debacle called into question the fate of the nascent tour. Some fans predicted a premature end for the month-long trek.
“No way” the show makes it through all the dates, said Bob Orlowski, a lawyer from Plymouth, Mich., who watched with six clients in a suite.
“He’s not suited for this,” said Orlowski, 46. “It wasn’t funny.”
Sheen’s publicist, Larry Solters, declined to comment. Sheen, 45, reappeared after the house lights went up to thank the hundreds who remained.
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