Last month Tyler Perry announced he would be taking a break from touring with his popular Madea stage play to focus on other projects [click here if you missed that].
Welp, Tyler just pulled the plug without finishing his final tour and he's blaming the early departure on bootleggers...
In a letter on the Tyler Perry website Tyler explains how bootleggers have taken advantage of his low pricing structure and how he's no longer going to be a party to it.
Tyler writes,
...Even though I set these prices so that they are affordable, fees are added that are out of my control and the price of the tickets can almost double. Add to that, when you go online looking for tickets, IN LOTS OF CASES, you are being led to a bootlegger and you don't even know it. There are a lot of ticket bootleggers and scalpers that buy lots of shows and sell them to the public for double, sometimes triple the price. I've been dealing with this for years but now with the internet I've never seen it this bad.
Also, there are some horrible people who are pretending to be me or representing me on Facebook and charging people money to do a meet and greet on the tour. They are telling people that they are me or working for me and charging them $150 for a meet and greet after the play. DON'T FALL FOR THIS!! That's not me.
This is so frustrating! Why are people so evil? Why can't people just get legitimate jobs and stop trying to do the wrong thing all the time? If they put the same amount of energy into doing the right thing as they do in doing the wrong thing they could make it. It's so sad.
To all of you who have bought tickets and made plans to be there I am so sorry. I really am but my hands are tied.
This was the last live Madea tour and I'm super sorry that you won't get to see it live.
All refunds should be given back to you.
23 comments:
stfu tpygb
He's just mad because someone ELSE managed to rip off those low-information fans of his before HE could!
Coons ALWAYS fuck shit up, Ty.
Translation: ticket sales are low this time around so he is forced to cancel the show. Most of the people who buy tickets aren't internet saavy so they do it the old way by calling in.
LOL @ 1:29 pm
How long is he going to do this black exploitation drag mess anyway, don't he have enough money, he has his foot in the door now. He doesn't have to keep doing this coon mess. He should move on to better movie, tv shows, and play scripts and leave the madea character behind. Enough already!
Don't know if this is true for TP plays, but I remember Prince saying something similar a while back. He said it makes it not affordable for his fans to come see him and he hated it. For a while, he cancelled tours and refused to tour. He's back to touring now, but I remember him wanting a way to stop this practice.
It was shown on Dr. Oz last Tuesday how easy it is for someone to send fake messages from your Facebook page. It's not impossible to do; if you get emails from Dr. Oz or Tyler Perry then you know they are fake.
If you can't say nothing nice,etc,etc....
This is a practice that has frustrated performers for years. It's is unfortunate that greedy people had to mess it up for everybody else. I actually purchased the $25.00 tickets for my two daughters to go to this show in Philly. I am thankful to Tyler for making the prices affordable this time around because I remember in the pass his plays were to expensive for me to take my children. Now that i know he may not be touring again I'm sorry I didn't get my son a ticket to go with my daughters. To the person that said ticket sales were slow that was not the case in Philly. I could only find a few tickets for one show. Can't speak for other cities
Tyler has been saying this for a while how bootlegger's have been doing this when it comes to his shows. But bootlegger's do this to everybody's shows. The only thing that you can do is from now on get your butt's up and go to your local ticketmaster and buy your tickets from there and bootlegger's won't and can't get paid off of you. Back in the day people used to stand out in long lines and wait to buy tickets, just start doing that again. Plan and simple.
thank you bootleggers. finally put a stop to this fuckin modern day minstrel show.
@3:30
You are taking your SON to see Tyler Perry, a grown man, running around in a DRESS. Wow. Black boy lost. I still don't get how some black women, afraid of DL brother's as they are, have managed to make Tyler Perry a millionaire by being in a dress.
@5:00 PM: Exactly!!!
Too bad. Oh well.
dont nobody go see Medea plays but black women. So called christian black women at that. This faggot ass muthafucka always talking about the Lord but this niggas running around in dresses and shit. And these bitches got the nerve to take their sons who will be future homos to go see this shit? Dumb ass coon bitches. I blame the black woman for turning our sons into homos
SMH @ 3:30pm.
BOOTLEGGERS MY AZZ, NOBODY IS BUYING PLAY TOCKETS AS THEY STUGGLE TO PAY, MORGTAGES, FOOD, KIDS STUFF AND ETC. TP YOU GOT ENOUGH MONEY WHILE YOU BLEED THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, GIVE THAT MONEY BACK, START SCHOLARSHIPS, TOYS DRIVE, SUMTHING. GO FIGURE!!
House nigga!
cough *bullsh*t*
To these comments all I can say is WOW
Wow black on black crime "coon bitches " really.? Smmfh
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