The film was inspired by a 2012 Channel 4 documentary called The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family, which followed Knight and her brother and parents, who are also professional wrestlers.<\/p>\n
Her father Patrick is known in the ring as “Rowdy” Ricky Knight, while her mother Julia uses a variety of stage names including Sweet Saraya – the same name they gave their daughter.<\/p>\n
The new stage adaptation is being masterminded by Tilted Musicals, the production company run by Girls Aloud songwriter Miranda Cooper and producer Sam Hodges.<\/p>\n
Cooper told BBC News the musical will be “not just for wrestling fans – we want it to go way beyond that”, adding that the subject matter lends itself well to the stage.<\/p>\n
“Wrestling is so theatrical, you’ve got your heroes and villains, its all about storytelling and everyone is playing a heightened version of themselves in the ring,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But watching the film and the documentary, the themes are so much about family, community and belonging. They are kind of off-the-wall characters, but there’s so much love.”<\/p>\n
The musical was the brainchild of Jon Brittain, who will be writing the adaptation with a soundtrack composed by Cooper and Nick Coler. <\/p>\n
The pair are best known for their work with songwriting outfit Xenomania, who wrote songs for Sugababes, Kylie Minogue, Pet Shop Boys and Girls Aloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The film was inspired by a 2012 Channel 4 documentary called The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-543883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}