The newly remodeled
proscenium house down the hill has a set of
LED's embedded in the floor that runs across the
stage about 6" upstage of the pit. And at center
stage there's one red
LED as well which is great for dancers.
As for glowtape. You've hit a pet peeve of mine. Glowtape is usually only effective for about 5 minutes after a large amount of light goes away. Some people think it magically glows on it's own for hours and that just isn't true. I had a student
stage manager telling her ASM to go around the set with a flash light AN HOUR BEFORE CURTAIN and charge up all the
glow tape. You can charge it up significantly more than usual by using either a
fluorescent or UV light instead of an
incandescent. But
glow tape has to have an occasional source of light or it doesn't do any good. Because of this most places use large quantities of white tape to
mark edges. While it's not as effective as
glow tape, if the
stage was just bright and then blacked out. Areas that are dark and never get good light simply don't ever get the recharge they need to cause
glow tape to glow. White tape on the other
hand will be visible if there is any light around, most theaters seem to have enough stray light here and there to make white tape a better option.