Lead roles in ‘Frozen’ meant for actresses?

NEW YORK — As a young girl, Caissie Levy had no use for princesses.

She was more the treeclimbing, bike-riding type, always scrambling to keep up with her older brothers.

Patti Murin, on the other hand, has long toyed with the tiara. Weaned on “Snow White” and theme parks (yes, Disneyland and Disney World), she has played princesses throughout her career.

Now the two actresses are opposite each other in one of the most anticipated Broadway shows of the spring: Disney’s “Frozen,” a musical adaptation of the Oscar-winning animated film.

Levy, 36, of Hamilton, Ontario, portrays Elsa, the self-reliant snow queen who struggles to contain the icy impact of her emotions.

Murin, 37, of Hopewell Junction, New York, plays Elsa’s younger sister, Anna, who overflows with yearning for the warm glow of love.

Conservatory-educated and employed pretty steadily since college, they have each starred at different times in “Wicked” (Levy as Elphaba, Murin as Glinda) and have both weathered heartbreaking Broadway flops (Levy in “Ghost,” Murin in “Lysistrata Jones”).

And even though their new jobs are as close to steady as anything gets on Broadway, their lives are not fairy tales. Both actresses have had moments when they thought “Frozen” wouldn’t be their happily ever after.

Murin is among the few artists who have been with the musical since a first reading with actors two years ago. The initial director was fired, the set designer quit, choreographers came and went,