A brother and sister from the southeast side of Detroit, who got the acting bug early, are enjoying success in Broadway musicals.
At 34, Celia Keenan-Bolger earned her second Tony nomination this spring — and for the second time, for playing the role of a girl about half her age.
“I don’t feel drawn to these young roles,’’ Keenan-Bolger told Joe Lapointe for Hour Detroit.
This year, she was nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Molly in the acclaimed Peter and the Starcatcher, a prequel of Peter Pan.
Seven years ago, Keenan-Bolger earned a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in her Broadway debut as the schoolgirl Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Her brother, Andrew, 27, currently plays the role of Crutchie, a disabled 1890s newsboy about half his age who goes on strike with fellow street urchins in the hit musical Newsies.
His show enjoyed nominations in several Tony categories, as has Peter. “I will ride it as long as possible,’’ Andrew says of younger roles.
