The Gig

An overlooked gem written and directed by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "The Subject Was Roses," THE GIG shines a small but appreciative light on six middle-aged men and the living-room jazz band they've formed once a week for years, just for their own love of music. Wayne Rogers plays a car dealer who handles the slide trombone; Jerry Matz is a clarinet teacher with an expanded view of his own talents; Daniel Nalbach, the drum-playing dentist who lives with his carping mother; Stan Lachow, a quiet basist; Andrew Duncan, a corporate type who comes to life only when he plunks the piano; and real-life musician Warren Vache as a superb trumpeter who gave up ...