The Costume Shop is a musical play of intimate estrangement exploring the history of a courtship distilled into a time frame of two days. The show strips the truth of intimacy bare to reveal the pain, fear, manipulation, conflict, and shame lurking beneath the humor, warmth and romance of attraction. Their meeting is within the domain of Louie the Shadow, a homeless member of the ignored, forgotten, and lost among us. Louie has a mysterious influence on the would-be lovers and serves as a window to witness the developing connection between them. There they enter into a world of sexual roleplay and gender politics as they try on costumes for the music business party to which Jack has invited Ginny.
Show business becomes show and tell.
The answer to that question is what the audience is invited to consider as they ponder the possibility of a future for the relationship between Jack and Ginny.