Bernadette Peters was one of Tomie’s favorite musical theater performers. He especially liked her in “Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance” in the 1980s. Bernadette Peters’ character was Emma, a young Englishwoman who travels to New York City to seek work and to chase love. But, that relationship in New York City doesn’t work out. She next meets film producer Sheldon Bloom and follows him to Los Angeles. It doesn’t take long for Emma to realize she is just “one of his things… a soggy crumpet floating around the pool all day long.”
During the song, “Capped Teeth and Caesar Salad,” singing is interrupted by a phone call Emma makes to Sheldon’s office. Emma asks if she may speak with Sheldon, but the secretary tells Emma that Mr. Bloom is at a screening. The secretary offers to take a message, but instead of taking a message from Emma, the secretary says “Have a nice day,” and hangs up. Yet, Emma continues to speak into the phone, “You have a nice day, too… and a nice swim.”
After hearing the Original Broadway Cast Recording of “Song and Dance,” we began to use the phrase, “Have a nice swim.” It became a comfortable way to say “goodbye,” but mean much more than “goodbye,” at the end of the day, or at the end of phone calls, or when one of us left for travel. (Bob)
https://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/songdance/cappedteethandcaesarsalad.htm
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