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OCR: April at the Wilshire Theater in Los Angeles. I arrived in the afternoon in time to watch her rehearse for that evening's performance of Search . She's a perfectionist in her work and a consummate professional, and I was amazed as I watched her tweak and fine-tune aspects of her performance which would seem irrelevant or invisible to a general audience. However, the quality of the end result was such that Meryl Streep went backstage after that evening's show to compliment Lily, genuinely and enthusiastically, on her work. The following evening I had a chance to talk to Lily in her dressing room before the show. She was sitting with Tess, a Norwich terrier who travels with her everywhere. We were discussing the subject of women in comedy, and she told me a story about how two years ago when she was working at the Upstairs in New York, there was a very pretty MENU