. >> i'm anxious to see this with my friend blair underwood. the play was so beautiful. the minute the play ends, i turn my phone on and my heart dropped. i came backstage to see you and miss tyson and the rest of the cast. you may recall that i was reading my phone and you walked out of your dressing room. that was the day the verdict came down in the george zimmerman trial. >> yes, yes, yes. >> remember that? >> i remember that. >> god smack. >> perfect word for it. as soon as the play ended. >> we were all backstage talking about it. i just remember miss tyson's reaction. i don't know that we expected it to be different but after seeing the play, see where i'm going with it, that verdict comes down. everybody in the theater, you almost heard a gasp. everybody turned their phones on. while we were in the play, here comes the verdict. it said a lot about racial relations in america then. this play says a lot about it then. what do you think makes the play so enduring after all these years? >> a story of a family. it's a story about trying to go back to what makes you fe