Charlie Sheen Booed Off Stage in Disastrous Debut Show

[Janice]

http://www.usmagazine.com/moviestvmusic/news/charlie-sheen-booed-off-stage-in-disastrous-debut-show-201124

Charlie Sheen Booed Off Stage in Disastrous Debut Show

Losing.

Charlie Sheen's much-hyped, sold out "My Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour began with a bust at Detroit's Fox Theater on Saturday.

According to multiple reports, the 45-year-old star provoked boos, audience walk-outs and demands for refunds during his rambling stage show. (The spectacle featured an appearance by his live-in "goddesses," a Q&A session about Sheen's wild life, film clips featuring his dad Martin Sheen and Johnny Depp, and a live rap by Simon Rexx.)

One disappointed audience member bellowed, "You suck!"

Sheen's retort: "Already got your f***ing money, dude."

After less than an hour, Sheen cut the extravaganza short; he left the stage for good, and the house lights were turned on.

"I want my money back!" audience member Linda Fugate told the Associated Press after walking out of the show. Fugate paid $150 for a pair of tickets. "I was hoping for something," she said. "I didn't think it would be this bad."

Added fellow fan Rodney Gagnon: "I expected him to at least entertainment a little bit. It was just a bunch of ranting."

Inspired by Sheen's ouster from Two and a Half Men following an epic battle with the show's creators and the studio, the 20-city tour is scheduled for the rest of April.

[Janice]

More stories of da bomb.

http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.tmz.com/2011/04/02/charlie-sheen-bombing-in-detroit-show-concert-tour-booing-fox-theater/&hl=en&geo=us

[Stuck In The '70's]

It's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who would pay good money to see Charlie Sheen. What did they expect?

[treky]

It's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who would pay good money to see Charlie Sheen. What did they expect?
:yeahthat

[catlover79]

GOOD!!!!!

[Brad]

Well... it seems failure is an option after all!

[catlover79]

The tour comes to Cleveland on Tuesday. It should be...INTERESTING...to find out how he is received here (and tickets are still available). Just a question...are the crowds scarier in Detroit or Philadelphia?? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[MrCleveland]

Maybe Sheen will break-down and call people names like Michael Richards...he can't get lower than that!

[80sTrivia]

No surprises here. I know I'd be mad if I was [foolish enough] to buy tickets to see a man speaking incoherently for an hour and a half... :eek:

[MickeyMac]

Why dont Charlie Sheen try to do something useful like getting his act together (no pun intended). Also why would people waste good money to go see this idiot????


I would rather watch the grass grow. Its more entertaining.

[TJL]

It's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who would pay good money to see Charlie Sheen. What did they expect?

Exactly. Anyone who bought tickets to see this trainwreck expecting to see some kind of brilliant one man show and then complain about being duped deserves to have their money taken from them.

[TJL]

The question now is will this tour make it all the way through?
I'm sure there are masochists out there who have read the reviews of the first show and are now going just to see if it could get any worse, but I doubt Charlie will continue if he keeps getting booed.

Plus, he's a drugged out loon and will probably forget about the tour by next week.

;)

[catlover79]

Maybe Sheen will break-down and call people names like Michael Richards...he can't get lower than that!

He probably would!!!

[catlover79]

I checked the tour itinerary on Ticketmaster and Philly is not listed. I wonder how bad tonight's show in Chicago will be??

[Janice Johnson]

Ouch. A woman paid $150.00 for a Charlie Sheen live show and didn't even get to enjoy it? :( With that money, she could have had a 4.99 Mozerella sticks appetizer, 16.99 ribeye steak dinner complete with garlic bread, french fries, and corn on the cob, a 7.99 Tropical Sunrise Margarita, and a 6.99 Molten Lava cake, and including tax and 18 percent tip, it would have come up to about 47.00 at Chili's. She could have bought a 15.00 IMAX ticket, a 7.00 large popcorn, and a 6.00 large soda, 28.00 at the movie theater. She could have also bought a 35.00 DVD player, including tax, and a 30.00 Collector's Edition DVD of a movie including tax. Together, that would have been 65.00. She would still have had an extra 10.00 left from the 150.00 after buying all of this. That woman wasted her 150.00 on charlie Sheen. :(

[catlover79]

They may as well have flushed that money straight down the toilet!!

[Dragonflies]

It's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of idiots who would pay good money to see Charlie Sheen. What did they expect?

:yeahthat

I think it's hilarious, honestly what were they expecting? I guess he's not WINNING after all :lol:

[TJL]

I checked the tour itinerary on Ticketmaster and Philly is not listed. I wonder how bad tonight's show in Chicago will be??

Yeah, various reports on the web are saying tonight's Chicago show will determine if this little experiment will continue.

[Janice]

Sheen thinks because he can be entertaining (to some people), that his schtick will transcend to a two-hour show. It doesn't. He's not a stand-up comedian. Even professional comics have to hone and perfect their craft. THEY bomb on many nights.

This fool doesn't get it that all that EPIC, WINNING, WARLOCK, TORPEDOS OF BULLCRAP grows very old, very fast. If people want that, all they have to do is watch all his nonsense appearances from last month, on youtube. They don't have to spend 80 bucks.

He blew a good thing. It wouldn't surprise me if CBS takes him back. Money is the bottom line.

[catlover79]

Janice, I couldn't agree more. No wonder I don't watch today's TV shows - it's just a cesspool. Give me the DVDs of the classics any day!!

Good for my hometown of Cleveland - the show scheduled here for Tuesday night is NOT a sell-out...tickets are still available, which I wouldn't buy even if I could afford to!!! There was also a FB campaign to have Charlie Sheen throw out the first pitch for the Indians' season opener - thank God the Indians didn't bite. Instead, the widow of Indians' pitching legend Bob Feller, Anne, took the mound for that special priviledge. See, there IS still some class here in NE Ohio!!! :cool: :D

[Crimson and Clover]

Really, it didnt do well. Im sooo surprised.

[cleverfun3000]

This entire thing is and was always about money - not entertainment. Sheen said it clearly when he Pointed out to an audience member that he already got his money. Sheen did not pay a director or a creative consultant because that would mean he would have to actually pay them - thus giving him less than 98% of the box office cash. This show is and was always for fans of Charlie sheen that didn't care what he would do onstage. They just wanted to be in his presense. And they got that, so no one deserves their money back because to pay money to see someone on a stage without a description of what they would do obviously means them doing nothing at all is more than acceptable.

[mystery_daisy]

I don't get how anyone who went to see a CS rant would expect quality content (?) :crazy:

[Dork]

I am not a fan of Charlie at all but again, who is?

[Janice]

This show is and was always for fans of Charlie sheen that didn't care what he would do onstage. They just wanted to be in his presense. And they got that, so no one deserves their money back because to pay money to see someone on a stage without a description of what they would do obviously means them doing nothing at all is more than acceptable.
Baloney. That's not acceptable. Anyone who spends good money expects to be entertained.

I heard he did better in Chicago, but hey, if they're happy listening to an onstage interview, then they're easily pleased.

[JamesG]

Sheen gets cheers, not boos in second stop on tour
April 4, 2011
Associated Press by Caryn Rousseau


CHICAGO – This time, Charlie Sheen's stage show began and ended with a standing ovation.

Sheen changed up the format for his 20-city road show after bombing in Detroit, using a master of ceremonies who asked the former "Two and a Half Men" star questions during Sunday night's performance in Chicago.

Sheen ditched the rapper, the long monologue and the videos that were part of the Detroit show that had people leaving in droves Saturday night.






The changes seem to have helped.

Audience members said the second performance on Sheen's "My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat is not an Option" tour wasn't stellar, but it at least had some amusing moments.

And the crowd at the 3,600-seat Chicago Theatre stayed for the entire performance and continued to cheer Sheen throughout.





Mackenzie Barth, 19, said the sold-out show was "weird," but that "at least no one was booing," referring to the reaction Sheen received in Detroit, where audience members chanted "refund" and headed for the exits even before the show abruptly ended.

Those attending the Chicago performance acknowledged they had low expectations going in after hearing the brutal reviews of the inaugural performance, which had started with thunderous applause.


"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.







But the talk show-style format kept Sheen from meandering and gave him the chance to make some of the snarky comments that have made him an Internet star since his falling out with CBS and the producers of "Two and a Half Men."

Sheen, 45, smoked cigarettes as he talked about his marriages, his career and his life with the women he calls his "goddesses" — a former porn star and an actress who live with him — as he answered question from an interviewer who did not identify himself.

Asked how many times he had been married, Sheen retorted, "Seven-thousand. That's why I'm broke."

Asked why he's "paid for sex" in the past, Sheen responded, "Because I had millions to blow. I ran out of things to buy."







Overall, he seemed to have a better rapport with the Chicago crowd. As the show began, some began chanting "Detroit sucks."

Early on, Sheen urged the audience in an obscenity-laced statement "not to become (expletive) Detroit tonight. Let's show Detroit how it's (expletive) done."



Later, when the interviewer asked Sheen when he had started "winning," the actor responded, "The winning started in (expletive) Chicago."

Ellen Olson, who was wearing a black T-shirt with Sheen's catchphrase "Winning!" in white across the front, said she enjoyed the performance.

"I think he interacted with the audience a lot, which made it more funny," said Olson, 55, of Elmwood Park.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110404/ap_on_en_ot/us_sheen_on_tour

[Retro4Life]

I have to say I wonder what people were expecting.

He's not a comedian (though he obviously thinks he is), he's not a singer, he can't play an instrument that I'm aware of, and he doesn't dance professionally. He is an actor (though he's pretty much made a career out of playing variations of himself) but it doesn't seem like anyone should have expected him to do Shakespeare during the performance.

The guy's an accident waiting to happen. I am sorry that the show was not what people expected, but it really would be interesting to hear some of the patrons who were dissatisfied talk about what they thought the show would be like.

[MrCleveland]

If I went to see him tomorrow (God Forbid) and he said "Ha...I got your money", I would say to him as loud as I can...

**** YOU CARLOS ESTEVEZ! YOUR OLD MAN DIDN'T BAIL YOU OUT AND NEITHER ARE WE! YOU DON'T HAVE ANY GOOD MOVIES, NOR GOOD SHOWS, "MAJOR LEAGUE"...THAT'S IT!

So...I'll save my breath...and money...for something else, like a car or a laptop computer.

[JamesG]

Charlie Sheen Scores Major Points with Cleveland Crowd
Apr 6, 2011
by Joyce Eng


Charlie Sheen received his second standing ovation on tour when he took his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" show to Cleveland.

The crowd was already on Sheen's side before he even came out on stage Tuesday, chanting "Detroit Sucks!" — a reference to his opening night disaster, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sheen, who played Cleveland Indian Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Major League, elicited more cheers when he walked out in an Indians jersey. He later told the crowd that he's hoping to shoot Major League 3 in Cleveland.






Sheen stuck to the Q&A format he introduced in Chicago. He called his father Martin's film Apocalypse Now the greatest movie ever made, followed by Jaws and Major League, and likened his feelings about his ex-wives to how Cleveland residents feel about LeBron James after he ditched the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat last summer.

When talk turned to "Two and a Half Men", Sheen said if he needed to, he would apologize to show creator Chuck Lorre, CBS and Warner Bros. TV to get his job back because he was a good enough actor to pull it off.




After the show, Sheen treated his crew to a screening of Apocalypse Now at a local theater, according to TMZ.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Charlie-Sheen-Tour-1031507.aspx

[Janice]

Sounds like Sheen still sucks, just sucks less than he did in Detroit. I can't imagine paying a nickel to hear anyone do a Q&A. Good Lord, what fools.

[JamesG]

Quick and Painful: Charlie Sheen's Tour Bombs in New York City
Apr 9, 2011
by Stephen Battaglio


At least it was short.

Charlie Sheen brought his "Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour" to Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Friday night. To call it a show would be using the term very loosely.

It was a bare-bones, one-hour dialogue with an interviewer in which Sheen showed a total inability to tell a humorous story about his career. Perhaps because nearly every anecdote involved cocaine and prostitutes, it was hard for Sheen to recall the details.





Releasing 8,000 bees on John Cusack in an Indianapolis hotel room.

Hiding coke in his underpants during an airline flight with Nicolas Cage. (Sheen says he picked up the term "goddess" from Cage. Fascinating.)

Something about giving CPR to a supermodel in a heroin-induced coma.

Sheen could not spin any of these tales coherently. This is why actors need screenwriters. And brain cells.





The morning zoo deejay-type interviewer tried to get Sheen going with questions about his life and career.

"Tell me about marriage," he asked. "Anything you want to say?"

"Yeah," Sheen replied. "I suck at it."







A video montage that included comic riffs on Sheen's media blitz — ending with a water aerobics routine done to an REO Speedwagon song — wasn't much better.

The more Sheen reveals of himself on the tour, the more we see a sad, middle-aged guy out of touch with the culture — and reality. The jeers and early exits by audience members built as the hour went on.



Even sadder is how Sheen is using his shows as a public forum to beg for his job back on "Two and A Half Men". He invited the show's producer Chuck Lorre to Sheen's Sunday performance at Radio City.

"I want my job back," Sheen said. It prompted an audience member to shout, "I want my money back."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Charlie-Sheen-Tour-NYC-1031649.aspx

[MrCleveland]

Charlie Sheen Scores Major Points with Cleveland Crowd
Apr 6, 2011
by Joyce Eng


Charlie Sheen received his second standing ovation on tour when he took his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" show to Cleveland.

The crowd was already on Sheen's side before he even came out on stage Tuesday, chanting "Detroit Sucks!" — a reference to his opening night disaster, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sheen, who played Cleveland Indian Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn in Major League, elicited more cheers when he walked out in an Indians jersey. He later told the crowd that he's hoping to shoot Major League 3 in Cleveland.






Sheen stuck to the Q&A format he introduced in Chicago. He called his father Martin's film Apocalypse Now the greatest movie ever made, followed by Jaws and Major League, and likened his feelings about his ex-wives to how Cleveland residents feel about LeBron James after he ditched the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat last summer.

When talk turned to "Two and a Half Men", Sheen said if he needed to, he would apologize to show creator Chuck Lorre, CBS and Warner Bros. TV to get his job back because he was a good enough actor to pull it off.




After the show, Sheen treated his crew to a screening of Apocalypse Now at a local theater, according to TMZ.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Charlie-Sheen-Tour-1031507.aspx

Yeah...I heard that his concert was MUCH better here!

And no...I didn't see it!

[catlover79]

Neither did I!!! :crazy: :lol:

[JamesG]

Two people I know paid $200 to see Sheen last night in NYC and they said he sucked.

They told me even I wouldn't like it... ok.

[catlover79]

Yeah, I heard the NY shows bombed. How much longer does this stupid tour go, anyway? :rolleyes:

[Janice]

http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/galleries/front_04122011.jpg

[catlover79]

That cover says it all!! :lol:

[cleverfun3000]

Sounds like Sheen still sucks, just sucks less than he did in Detroit. I can't imagine paying a nickel to hear anyone do a Q&A. Good Lord, what fools.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess. By the way I absolutely, positively L-O-V-E your Supertramp avatar!

[Janice]

. By the way I absolutely, positively L-O-V-E your Supertramp avatar!
Thanks. Great album. I saw them in concert (no cracks) :). 'Take The Long Way Home' is probably my husband's favorite song.