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Cirque d’Eau?: Cirque du Soleil will get all wet in a permanent show at the new Bellagio resort in Las Vegas, Cirque officials announced Monday. Planned for a 1998 opening, the new production will be Cirque’s first water show. A $50-million, 1,800-seat theater will be built for the $20-million show. The Bellagio complex, which will include a 12-acre lake, is owned by Mirage Resorts International--the same company that owns the Las Vegas hotel Treasure Island, where Cirque du Soleil’s first permanent show, “Mystere,” will continue to run. Cirque officials also announced that a third permanent show will open in a Berlin real estate complex in the year 2000.

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The Critics Speak: The Stephen Sondheim/George Furth mystery play “Getting Away With Murder,” which opened on Broadway Sunday, was called a “great disappointment” by Vincent Canby of the New York Times. Newsday found the play “distressingly flat,” while Variety said it’s “a goner.” The Daily News and USA Today reviews were somewhat more upbeat, and most critics managed kind words for the production, which was staged by Jack O’Brien, artistic director of Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. The play premiered at the Old Globe last September under a different title, “The Doctor Is Out.”