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Other than a couple of good tunes and a single popular aria, this vapid setting of Shakespeare’s play makes it one of the least notable works in the standard operatic repertory and the least worthy “Romeo and Juliet” adaptation I know, Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo + Juliet” included.

“It’s kind of finished but it’s not, plus we have Simone and Baz, and it’s about them.”

He’s played Michael Corvin, the vampire-werewolf hyrbid in the “Underworld” film series; Barry “Baz” Blackwall, a member of a dysfunctional Southern California crime family, in “Animal Kingdom”; a U.S. navy officer in “Last Resort”; and Matthew Engler, a wealthy tech CEO who becomes consumed with finding out the truth about his wife’s death in “You.”

If Baz is around, then Ben may want to be, too.

English cricket has been historically poor at exposing its best players to top-level coaching, so giving experience in this situation can only be a good thing in planning for life after Baz.