“Frozen” is a particularly hot topic for Lauren Nicole Chapman.

The West Bloomfield-raised actress has been part of the stage musical adaptation of the hit 2013 Disney animated film since its pre-Broadway workshops in 2017. Since then, she’s been part of the ensemble and played Princess Anna, the irreverent younger sister of Princess Elsa of Arendelle.

She’s now doing the part full-time as part of “Frozen’s” first national tour — which opens Wednesday, Nov. 29 at the Detroit Opera House — and is looking forward to letting it go at home every night the troupe performs.

“It’s so special to be with something for this long,” Chapman, 32, says by phone from the “Frozen” tour stop in Boston. “To see the piece evolve over several years, over a pandemic and everything, it’s really unique.

“I think what keeps me interested is it’s never the same. Just getting it up (on stage) was one thing. Now we’re getting to take it to different markets around the country, and to see how those people respond is really special.

“It’s been a long, beautiful journey.”

And for Chapman — who also was booked to perform during America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit — that trip started a decade ago when she became an instant fan of the film.

“What I was particularly taken within the animated film was this depiction of true love between sisters,” Chapman recalls. “We sort of know the classic fairy tale of the true love between maybe a prince and a princess. But here we have two empowered women at the helm. That’s what drew me in.

“I grew up sort of a Disney baby, so the idea of having a new, big, flashy, magical Broadway musical like this was so exciting.”

The daughter of an auto industry executive and interior designer (both now retired), Chapman had “absolute certainty” of a career in theater from “a very young age.” “My parents used to laugh because I was the kind of kid who would come home with the application form filled out (and) the audition already booked,” she says. “I was very much gung ho in a lot of ways.”

Chapman started with music lessons, eventually integrating acting and dance. Her first “big” production was starring as Dorothy in a summer camp production of “The Wizard of Oz,” while she made frequent trips to the Fisher Theatre and Detroit Opera House. “My mom brought me to everything that came through Detroit — the Fisher, the Fox, Masonic Temple, we saw it all,” Chapman says. After a summer program at Interlochen Arts Academy, she transferred there for her senior year of high school, a jarring change that was nevertheless the right move for her.

“I think I knew that I needed a few more tools in order to start the process of making this a career,” Chapman explains. “I came home from the summer program and said: ‘Mom, dad, here’s my application. I have an audition next week for the theater program; if I get in I will be going in a matter of four weeks to boarding school.’ It happened very quickly, but it was the absolute right thing to do.”

Chapman attended Emerson College in Boston and moved to New York City after graduating in 2013. Prior to “Frozen,” she was part of the national tour for “Kinky Boots,” which also stopped at the Fisher Theatre, and was in Detroit Opera House productions of “The Nutcracker” with the Cincinnati Ballet and Joffrey Ballet companies. But she not surprisingly finds Anna a peak role for her young career.“She’s very quirky,” Chapman explains. “She definitely has an optimistic way of looking at life, and sometimes that same optimism can get her in a little bit of trouble. I was drawn to her quirk and her joy. She’s funny and she’s not afraid to show love, which I think is something I really love.”

Chapman will eventually go on to other roles, but she’s more than satisfied putting Anna’s crown on each night for “Frozen.”

“I’m finding myself more and more drawn to the origination of new roles and new musicals,” she says. “In the future, I would love to investigate that. But (theater) has been my dream for so long, and a role like this has been my dream for so long. And the fact I get to come home and share with my hometown is so incredibly special. I can’t put it into words.

“I can’t believe I’m actually doing what I set out to do, so I really am trying to relish in that right now and be in the moment with this.”

“Frozen” runs Wednesday, Nov. 29 through Dec. 17 at the Detroit Opera House, 1526 Broadway St., Detroit. 313-961-3500 or broadwayindetroit.com.