Liberace day with his gimmicky act, his showy but careful piano playing, his non-stop promotions, and his gaudy display of success, but he remained largely unaffected, as preserved by the famous quotation, first recorded in a letter to a critic, "Thank you for your very amusing review. After reading it, in fact, my brother George and I laughed all the way to the bank." He used a similar response to subsequent poor reviews, famously modifying it to "I cried all the way to the bank." In an appearance on "The Tonight Show" some years later, Liberace reran the anecdote to Johnny
All the Way (play) of Lyndon Johnson"). But Caro refused, telling "The New York Times": "I didn't want to see someone playing Lyndon Johnson or talk to the actor playing him because I was afraid that image would become blurred for me. The better the actor the more danger there would be that that would happen." The Broadway production received generally favorable reviews, with Bryan Cranston's performance singled out for praise. Writing in "The New York Times", Charles Isherwood called "All the Way" a "dense but mostly absorbing drama, set during the tense first year of Johnson's presidency following the assassination of President John