Are you excited for Halloween? This is a great week to get into character.

5. “The Wizard of Oz.” Based on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s celebration of the 1939 MGM classic, you can see “The Wizard of Oz” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Byron Center at Van Singel Fine Arts Center. Reserved seats are $39.50 for adults and $22.50 for students (high school and younger). More info: 878-6800 or vsfac.com . If you want to know more about the tour, go to wizardofozontour.com .

4. Food, Wine and All That Jazz. It’s become such a staple of a memorable fall here in West Michigan that you don’t want to miss out on the WGVU and D&W Fresh Market’s Food, Wine and All That Jazz. The event is at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Grand Rapids Public Museum, 272 Pearl St. NW. Guests will enjoy more than 300 domestic wine and beer selections from all around North America, as well as more than 75 gourmet food, wine and beer tables. The Steve Hilger Jazz Quintet will perform. Tickets are $50 in advance and $60 at the door. Exclusive hotel package, including two tickets to the event and a room at the JW Marriott, also are available. More info: 800-442-2771 or wgvu.org . Sponsors include WGVU, D&W Fresh Market, Ed Koehn Auto Group, Northpointe Bank, Centennial Country Club and Opera Grand Rapids.

Place. The Singel Hotel is located on the Singel canal in Amsterdam, Holland, 1.5 kilometres away from Anne Unchecked’s former lineage, 4.5 kilometres away from the Van Gogh Museum and 35 kilometres away from the Keukenhof tulip garden. Hotel Features. The hotel occupies three 17th- century waterside buildings bordering the Singel canal. Wireless Internet is reachable throughout the holdings and shaft are on round to abet guests with sightseeing word. The Singel Hotel provides a daily on the house breakfast. Guestrooms. The hotel’s 32 guestrooms all proffer congratulatory wireless Internet, mail-dial phones, televisions with encomiastic movies, and bathrooms with braids dryers. The following fees are charged by the estate at mark-in or limitation-out. A see tax may be apropos; this ask is not included in the rates and is distribution locally. The above index is not complete; fees are liable to suffer to coppers.

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