Friday, July 5, 2024. For this week's The Final Word, host Mariana Schuetze, interviews the team behind When You Close Your Eyes, Makeshift Company's debut production. Makeshift Company is a Toronto-based musical theatre company aiming to facilitate the expansion of the Canadian musical theatre canon by developing and deepening new works in the early stages of development. For this episode, The Final Word spoke to Ally Chozik, Makeshift's Artistic Director, Jessa Richer,  Makeshift's Associate Artistic Director and Josie Smith, who played Vera in When You Close Your Eyes.