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    Posted: 11/05/09 at 1:24pm
I'm in need of breakaway window glass.  Anyone know of a company with reasonable prices.  I need 8 individual window panes, and one company quoted me $800.  I was floored, and that included "shipping". 
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Quote vickifrank Replybullet Posted: 11/05/09 at 3:21pm
Try http://anaspecialeffects.8m.com/breakawaylist2.htm  (I've heard they do custom window panes)  or make candy glass yourself on a cookie sheet.  Here are one set of directions that I've found  http://www.likeastory.com/boards/cgi/noncgi/Forum18/HTML/000294.html
YouTube has a video of two kids doing this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBuHglAGhY   This video is funny & cute: its kid filmed complete with little mistakes and 'Oh yeah and you also...'.  Or google it yourself with candy glass or sugar glass.
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Quote BelizeAA Replybullet Posted: 11/06/09 at 8:04am
Thank you.
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Quote Topper Replybullet Posted: 11/06/09 at 2:17pm
What show are you doing? Sometimes the break can be faked with simply a sound cue. When we did "Noises Off" there's a scene where Selsden enters by breaking a pane of glass and climbing through the window. We simply used a solid piece of plexiglass and he would push out the entire pane. (It was held in place by bent staples. No need to replace the glass; simply re-used the same pane over and over.
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Quote BelizeAA Replybullet Posted: 11/06/09 at 3:52pm
We are doing  A Streetcar Named Desire.  The window Stanley throws the radio out is right infront of the audience.
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Quote gelcat Replybullet Posted: 11/30/09 at 11:11am
I would be concerned with shrapnel hitting the audience if the area is that close- New Orleans is hot, and windows are normally open- I've always seen that scene as the radio getting thrown offstage, and a crash box providing the sound of the radio crash landing wherever.
Sugar glass is still sharp and can cut and hurt, as well as create a mess if it is humid in the theatre, and wet mopping can create  sticky sugar streaks from where the mop picks up shards. 
 
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Quote jt7724 Replybullet Posted: 3/21/11 at 8:52pm
I'm sure your show is long over, but if someone else is looking for a creative idea on how to do this, what if you were to build a window of the type where there are a series of small panes divided by trim
(like this http://www.bigstockphoto.com/image-271200/stock-photo-old-fashioned-windows), leave out the glass and make the trim break away then add the breaking glass sound effect.  I have never tried this but I would think it would work.
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