[SML] Pre-cut breaking glass and hiding the seams

[Pat Kight]

Bruce Purdy via Stagecraft wrote:
>> I am considering how to do a particular effect with breaking glass. This is for Neil Simon's Fools, and I am proposing that one of the shop keepers has an ongoing struggle getting his broom through the door. The final solution is when the broom accidentally breaks the shop window, and he realizes the broom handle is part-way into the shop. This becomes his preferred way of getting the broom in, and so it must be reset several times.
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>> I can imagine making the broken glass from plastic, and cutting it into the broken pieces.
> 	I wonder whether sugar glass might work? I know break-away bottles are made of Sugar Glass. When I was a kid I used to make homemade lollypops with just sugar and water (plus some flavouring and food colour.) If this hot mix was poured into a large flat mould (cookie sheet?) it might become a safely breakable window pane. Make as many as you need.
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> 	NOTE: I’ve never tried this, and have no idea if it would work, but in the spirit of brainstorming …
I have tried it, and it's an even bigger PITA than the old breakaway 
resin. VERY hard to get the sugar melted without it browning, and if 
there's the least bit of humidity in the air, you're going to have to 
cast a new pane every day or they'll start melting.

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Pat Kight