Catherine Wreford first met Craig Ramsay when she was a 16-year-old at the RWB School. "He babysat me, basically," she recalls with a singularly infectious laugh about her earliest encounter with the then-19-year-old. "I didn't even realize this was happening, but he was sort of like, 'I'll just walk with you and I'll take you here and make sure you don't do anything stupid.'" Over the course of their three-decade-long friendship, the two have played the role of each other's keeper both in Winnipeg and all the way to Broadway, where both have several credits to their name. The high point of their camaraderie and care for one another came in 2022, when the duo (dubbed "Team Broadway") won The Amazing Race Canada, winning them fans across the country. Now, the duo is taking audiences literally Behind the Curtain with their musical theatre variety show of the same being hosted at the Gas Station Arts Centre. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } An intimate portrait of pals After their success on The Amazing Race Canada, Wreford and Ramsay set out on other ventures together, returning to perform on stage with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet on a couple of occasions and appearing as motivational speakers, speaking about Wreford's terminal brain cancer diagnosis nearly a decade-and-a-half ago. "We were writing a book and we sort of put it into categories and we said, 'OK, this one can go with this category,'" explains Wreford, adding that there were some stories that could never have been published. ("'This category can never be in the book,'" Ramsay labels it.) "And then we were like, 'Well, why don't we just put all that category into a show?'" View this post on Instagram A post shared by Catherine Wreford (@catherinewreford) "With her terminal diagnosis, there's a lot of times where you just say, 'I don't care. I have nothing to lose, and also, we don't have to apologize for the lives we live,'" Ramsay adds. "People think they know us from both the race and from Catherine being incredibly well-known in Winnipeg. You don't know us until you see behind the curtain." RELATED STORIES Looking Glass Theatre gives audience the gavel for 'Summation' Modernized 'Cyrano de Bergerac' opens RMTC season Artist's Alley 55+ offers seniors acting skills, community Life-accompanying playlist While the duo say that Behind the Curtain could have been two days long with all of the music that has accompanied their friendship, they've managed to curate pieces from the large-scale Broadway shows that they were a part of like Oklahoma, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof and 42nd Street. The songs will be accompanied by pianist and music director Robert Ollis. "We're so bless with the careers on Broadway and abroad that we've had," Ramsay said of the wealth of material that they could draw on while adding that they were intentional about choosing songs that could take audiences deeper into their experience. "Like the saying goes, 'You sing because spoken words don't do the emotion justice,'" he explains. "When the audience member's sitting there, they already have emotions attached to these songs to take them through that journey." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Craig Ramsay (@craigramsayfit) While Wreford admits the revue contains stories that she's still embarrassed to talk about, singing them makes the experience that much easier. "When I'm stage, I feel like I'm home," she says. "When I'm on stage, I'm the most vulnerable, I'm the most proud of myself, I'm the most loved with myself, and so I can just be there and be alive and tell people what's happened." Behind the Curtain takes place October 9 and 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Gas Station Arts Centre in Osborne Village. Tickets and more details can be found at the theatre's website.