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Jim Bailey From The Times By Susie Boyt

Published 10 June 2009

I am sitting in the front row of the Leicester Square Theatre on twin red plush tip-up seats with Jim Bailey, a performer whose job it has been for more than 40 years to “be” Judy Garland. The theatre bustles with many well-groomed young men. “It takes a lot of people to resurrect a legend,” Bailey’s manager Steve tells me smilingly. Bailey, 61, does not impersonate Garland. There is nothing camp or playful or stagey…