they are our all-access guests, blair underwood and nicole ari parker. >> you must be stanley.> yes. >> where's little woman? >> in the bathroom. >> here with the stars of the revived hit "a streetcar named desire," blair underwood and nicole ari parker. con gratelationgratulatio congratulations. that's a big deal. >> yes. >> the shows are closing out around us. it's by word of mouth. the word on the street is this is the show to come to. >> this is a huge hit. >> "a," it's a classic american play and "b," blair underwood is in it. >> like nicole said, it's a classic. many people feel as though they know it or think they know it. it's important to have a barometer, point of reference. >> one of the perceptions is that you all have radically changed the play from the original tennessee williams version or even the randall version. >> minor things. >> minor changes. >> people are basing it on the movie. a lot of people haven't read the actual play. they're going off the movie version in 1951 which was made at a time when censorship is very high. most of the stories, the key turni

seen more than one article by a variety of critics taking "streetcar" on broadway now, staring blair underwood and nicole ari parker, taking that production to task because there's certain lines that stanley kowalski and blanche you know the work, obviously. >> yeah, i know the work, morgan freeman. tavis: there's a controversy about that. does it really work when they're playing the part and saying this particular line, this particular scene? that debate continues, so it's not always so easy to just make the switch-out without creating some sort of controversy. >> well, no, there isn't. they did "cat on a hot tin roof," didn't seem to create all that controversy. it seemed to me that that's a harder one to swallow, to make an all-black cast out of. so i don't understand about "streetcar" at all. doesn't make any sense to me. but people are always someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence. tavis: yeah, and if you're going to be in this business, as you well know, art is subjective, so people have a right to say that. >> yeah. tavis: you ever get tired of taking race question

blair underwood is joining us this morning from new york.reat to see you, and everybody knows you are a fantastic actor and super star in your own right, but you have been passionate about this issue for years and tell us why. >> i have been, and first of all, thank you, suzanne and finally glad to make it to suzanne's newsroom here on cnn. thank you for having me. i think that my interest and passion for hiv and aids awareness started 25 years ago with an organization that i co-founded in hollywood called artist artists for h south africa and so it was on the folks in south africa initially and we have put so much time and money into to awareness of hiv/aids there, and you start to say, wait, what about our own backyard and the aids awareness and prevention here in our own country and that is when i got involved here in our country specifically with a group called aids health care foundation and we have had a partnership for four or five years and done a number of campaigns in los angeles especially and we opened up the first clinic in wash

. >> on "gaa" we have blair underwood. actor and all-around great guy. stay with us, will you?out toby. this great, new treatment. you found a way to treat older dogs. they have arthritis and things like that. >> this is a treatment that's been used on humans when they have athletic injuries for years. now, they're using it on animals. and the results are incredible. this is leo, an 11-year-old german shepherd from new jersey, who is having severe hip pain. so bad, his family called their veterinarian and said it was time to let him go. but her vet said hold on. he wanted to try out a new technology called cold laser therapy. >> it is drug-free. and the effect is almost immediate. >> reporter: and the best part, unlike with medicine, there's no side effects. in leo's case, it worked. reducing his pain and saving his life. >> basically, it sends heat. it helps to fight two things, pain and inflammation. >> reporter: cold laser therapy is being used all over america and on all sorts of animals. like flipper, a litter-trained bunny. >> i just love him. >> reporter: at age 11, flip