When we caught Lily recently at the Boarding House, in orange overalls and black turtleneck, without costumes or props, we were introduced to at least five strange characters we'd never seen before … except, perhaps, in real life….

There was Crystal, the CB quadriplegic, wheeling defiantly cross-country toward Big Sur to become a hang-glider rider. There was Lily, the second grader, hopelessly in love with her teacher, Miss Sweeney…. There was Tess, the bag woman (cowriter Jane Wagner calls her "the loony woman"), who, when not institutionalized, roams the streets with a shopping bag, a copy of the National Enquirer and a headful of private but peculiarly logical theories….

And there was Glenna, the "Sixties Person," certainly the longest (15 minutes), most elaborate and possibly most socially satirical sketch Lily has yet done…. [The] "Sixties Person" is a piece about changes, not only in an individual but in a period...