Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
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Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#1Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Posted: 3/30/10 at 11:01am
I'm helping gather props for a community theater production of ALNM, and they're telling me that they actually want Henrik (I think?) to throw and break his champagne glass on stage each performance. This just seems nuts to me.
How have other people handled this? How is it handled in the current BWay production?
#2Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Posted: 3/30/10 at 11:04amIn the current bway production the top half of the glass breaks off from the bottom half. It works fine that way. Or you could even have a glass shatter on a picnic blanket in that scene, which could easily be picked up in the blanket.
#2Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Posted: 3/30/10 at 11:46amWe had sugar glasses made for the production I was in.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#3Breaking glass in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Posted: 3/30/10 at 12:02pm
You can find any number of online retailers who deal in breakaway prop items.
Hopefully though in the way the rest of the show is staged there is either an adequate time to sweep the glass up, or it is being broken into an area of the stage that is not being used again. Even breakaway glass shatters into some very hard and sometimes pointy pieces. A lot of characters are getting ready to run and roll all around that stage shortly and the remains of a champagne glass are not something you are going to want underfoot at that point.
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